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9/16/09 LIUNA U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis praised LIUNA’s breakthrough national weatherization training program speaking via satellite to the union’s Leadership Conference today.
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9/10/09 The Star Ledger Two leading environmental groups and a large labor union joined in Trenton today, urging New Jersey's Congressional leaders to push stronger energy efficiency provisions in proposed federal climate change legislation, citing a new report that claims such measures could create 539,000 jobs in the next 20 years. Simply making homes and businesses more energy efficient by 2030 would create 34,500 jobs in the Garden State alone, according to a study released by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy or ACEEE, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit energy group that also said household energy costs will be reduced along with carbon emissions blamed for inducing global climate change.
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9/03/2009 WAMU 88.5 FM Two years ago, Amy Vruno and her fiance Chuck Roberts bought a 100-year-old house in Northeast, D.C. They loved the exposed brick and the pine floors. But the heating costs were a killer... $350 a month in the winter. And, Vruno says, it was still cold.
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9/5/09 LIUNA Members of LIUNA – the Laborers International Union of North America – weatherized the home of a young Washington, D.C. couple today for free. This pre-Labor Day energy efficiency demonstration kicked off LIUNA’s nationwide training program that could employ tens of thousands of American workers in the emerging weatherization industry being fueled by federal economic recovery investments.
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8/31/09 Fast Lane Blog Last week, we at the Federal Transit Administration were celebrating the achievement of a very important milestone: FTA beat the Sept. 1 deadline for providing all states and local communities at least half of their Recovery Act transit dollars.
Not only did we meet that critical goal, but we went even further. Working with nearly 600 transit providers around the country, FTA has awarded 88% of its Recovery Act transit formula funds—that’s $6.7 billion of the $7.5 billion apportioned through ARRA!
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8/10/09 Las Vegas Review Journal The Silver State will soon run out of major construction projects: The Strip’s massive CityCenter will be complete by the end of the year, and the Hoover Dam bypass bridge will conclude soon as well. That’s why investment in clean energy is more important to the Silver State than ever, said Danny Thompson, head of the Nevada chapter of the AFL-CIO.
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8/10/09 LIUNA Terry O’Sullivan, General President of LIUNA – the Laborers’ International Union of North America – told the National Clean Energy Summit today that simply weatherizing America’s housing can create tens of thousands of good jobs, save working people money and help free the nation from foreign oil.
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8/6/09 MinnPost Jim Oberstar, arguably Minnesota single most influential legislator, is not happy with the Obama administration, and he's not being shy about telling people so. As Mark Zdechlik reports for MPR, Oberstar, the House's transportation guru, has waited long enough for a wholesale streamlining of transportation agencies and is not at all happy that the Obama crew wants to push this back until 2011 at the earliest. Says Oberstar, "It is disappointing that after eight years of a Bush administration that said no to robust investment in transportation now the Democratic administration says 'well not now ... 18 months," Oberstar said. "The nation doesn't have 18 months for a head-start program in transportation for the planners at the White House. People need jobs now." Besides the administration's intense focus on health-care reform, Oberstar's plan requires a $450 billion federal investment financed by a new federal gas tax. And you thought the deficit cranks were howling about "Cash for Clunkers."
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8/5/09 Reuters The Department of Energy's Weatherization Assistance Program is enabling a number of low-income homes to receive efficiency measures, like super insulated windows. As the prospect of colder weather rolls in, green panes could rise to new stimulus-fueled peaks.
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8/5/2009 CNN Money NEW YORK-- The $787.2 billion stimulus plan is a lightning rod for criticism and second guessing, but love it or hate it, the massive program's funds are flowing as planned.
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