On December 19, 2008, the Alliance to Save Energy, Edison Electric Institute, the Energy Future Coalition, and the Natural Resources Defense Council jointly announced an "Energy Efficiency and Economic Recovery Initiative"-a set of "green economy" proposals for the incoming Obama administration. To put Americans back to work, lower their energy bills, and cut greenhouse gas emissions, we encourage President-elect Obama and Congress to launch the "Energy Efficiency and Economic Recovery Initiative." The initiative has a national goal of retrofitting 2 million buildings over the next two years to substantially reduce their energy use. America's building sector is in crisis. Now is the ideal time to jumpstart a green jobs market, using the skilled and underemployed construction sector work force that is ready and waiting, and to stimulate a large secondary market in product and equipment sales. The initiative will build the policy framework needed to achieve these goals.
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