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Recovery through Retrofit: The EPA’s Part

In case you missed it, last week VP Biden announced the new Recovery through Retrofit program. In it there was four main items that were all wrapped together. A new Home Energy Scoring Tool, Financing, DOE’s Retrofit guidelines, and an often-overlooked one: The EPA’s “Healthy Indoor Environment Protocols for Home Energy upgrades” Seeing that the […]

Filed Under: Recovery thru Retrofit, Regulatory Issues November 19, 2010 By SLS

USGBC, the EPA, DOE & VP Biden – what a week:

If you have been following the news, the blogs & the tweets this week, I am sure you have seen all the announcements coming out, talking about this Energy Efficiency nirvana. Unfortunately, for the nirvana crowd, it seems almost everyone pulled a copy & paste & did not really dig into it these programs. Before […]

Filed Under: Going Green?, LEED for Homes, Recovery thru Retrofit, Regulatory Issues Tagged With: Retrofit November 12, 2010 By SLS

Are you ready for this… National Residential Retrofit Guideline?

On Monday, I received an invitation to attend a webinar put on by DOE / NREL to attend a webinar entitled “National Residential Retrofit Guidelines: Update & Opportunities to Engage.” Hmmm, I had never heard of that and it sounded somewhat interesting. It also appeared at first glance to run after another webinar I was […]

Filed Under: Recovery thru Retrofit, Regulatory Issues Tagged With: Retrofit August 12, 2010 By SLS

RRP Updates: Home Insurance, LSHR, HR 5177, & the Brochures

Well this has been a busy week on many fronts. For most of this week, I have been attending RESNET Training here in Atlanta. Needless to say, the EPA and the fallout from the RRP has not started to dissipate yet. In this article, I have three quick updates, followed by a guest post today from Dean Lovvorn of the Certified Renovator Council of North America’s explaining why many legal “EPA certified” contractors may be working illegally.

Filed Under: EPA Lead Regulations, Regulatory Issues Tagged With: Certified Lead Renovator, Guest Article's, LSHR May 14, 2010 By SLS

Home Star Update & what is up with these National Organizations?

In our prior articles on HomeStar, we did an overview of the bill introduced in the Senate, followed up by a list of major issues and our suggestions.  Well, it appears that the bill in the House of Representatives (HR 5019) is actually set to be voted on May 6th, while the Senate bill is […]

Filed Under: Regulatory Issues Tagged With: HomeStar May 4, 2010 By SLS

HomeStar Primer: The Issues & a Fix?

In our previous article on the HomeStar program, we provided a brief primer on the program, included a copy of the actual bill, and pointed out some of the good aspects of it. In that article we also pointed out some major issues with the program that we feel should be addressed. In this article I would […]

Filed Under: Regulatory Issues Tagged With: HomeStar April 23, 2010 By SLS

HomeStar Primer – Good for the economy, good for homeowners?

HomeStar (aka Cash for Caulkers) is a proposed measure introduced in the Senate to “create good living-wage jobs in construction and related industries by providing strong short-term incentives for home energy efficiency improvements.”  It was also designed to “reward homeowners for investing in insulation and weatherization, high-efficiency heating and air conditioning equipment, replacement windows and […]

Filed Under: Regulatory Issues Tagged With: HomeStar April 16, 2010 By SLS

ENERGY STAR: Can it and should it be saved?

As many of our regular readers know, we have long supported and still recommend purchasing ENERGY STAR® rated products. Unfortunately, though there have been some issues that have popped up lately that have caused many groups and individuals to question if the program is more fiction than fact. On the flip side, we have some people […]

Filed Under: Consumer Awareness, EnergyStar, Regulatory Issues April 6, 2010 By SLS

In case you missed it; October is National Energy Awareness Month & a quick primer on the Energy Tax Credit

Ok, I admit it, I had no clue and this is its 22nd year of it being observed. Obviously though I am not the only one, as one site that lists all the different “National Fill in the Blank Month’s” has over 30 listings just for October and not one of them is about energy. […]

Filed Under: EnergyStar, Regulatory Issues October 10, 2009 By SLS

About Time: Truth about endorsements required for bloggers

Well ok, its effective December 1st – but the FTC has now come out with guidelines governing paid endorsements made by bloggers and others (FTC article & link below). Personally, I think this is a good idea and in some ways, I am glad to see it arrive. The other part of me worries about […]

Filed Under: Consumer Awareness, Ethics, Regulatory Issues October 5, 2009 By SLS

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