Even money-saving energy efficiency programs face political backlash, regional leaders say

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Budgets for energy efficiency programs are growing nationwide, nbut there is concern about how they will fare in prevailing political nsentiments.nAt the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy’s Energy nEfficiency as a Resource conference in Denver on Sept. 26, nonprofit nand utility interests shared the bird’s-eye view of efficiency in their nregions. Across the board, they said, 2011 budgets are bigger than nin previous years and create more in savings than the programs cost. nTo varying degrees, political changes may affect the future of even nestablished programs.