Media Advisory and Expert Availability
What:
On June 25, 2013, President Obama called on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate carbon pollution from existing power plants. Next week, on June 2, 2014, EPA is scheduled to release a proposal that will contain a suite of options available to states to reduce their emissions. Energy efficiency provisions may be among the options. The following is a list of national and state-based organizations that can provide reactions to the proposal.
Who:
NATIONAL GROUPS
American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE)
Press contact: Patrick Kiker, 202.507.4043, [email protected]
The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy acts as a catalyst to advance energy efficiency policies, programs, technologies, investments, and behaviors. For information about ACEEE and its programs, publications, and conferences, visit aceee.org.
Natural
Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Press contact for
CPS/climate/NRDC’s original proposal: Jake Thompson, 202.289.2387, [email protected]
Press contact for energy
efficiency benefits: Pat Remick, 202.289.2411, [email protected]
The Natural Resources
Defense Council (NRDC) is an international nonprofit environmental organization
with more than 1.4 million members and online activists. Since 1970, our
lawyers, scientists, and other environmental specialists have worked to protect
the world’s natural resources, public health, and the environment. NRDC has
offices in New York City, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco,
Chicago, Bozeman, MT, and Beijing. Visit us at www.nrdc.org and follow us on
Twitter @NRDC and @NRDCEnergy
Environmental
Defense Fund (EDF)
Press contact: Katherine
Owens, 512.691.3447, [email protected]
Environmental Defense
Fund (edf.org), a leading national nonprofit organization, creates transformational
solutions to the most serious environmental problems. EDF links science,
economics, law and innovative private-sector partnerships. Connect with us on Twitter, Facebook, and our Energy
Exchange Blog.
The
Institute for Market Transformation (IMT)
Press contact: Amanda
Hurley, 202.525.2883 x306, [email protected]
The Institute for Market Transformation (IMT) is a Washington, DC-based
nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting energy efficiency, green
building, and environmental protection in the United States and abroad. Much of
IMT’s work addresses market failures that inhibit investment in energy
efficiency. For more information, visit imt.org.
Alliance
to Save Energy
Press contact: Rodney
Sobin, 202.530.2234, [email protected]
Alliance to Save
Energy is a coalition of prominent business, government, environmental and
consumer leaders who promote the efficient and clean use of energy worldwide to
benefit consumers, the environment, economy and national security. For more information visit us at www.ase.org or follow us @ToSaveEnergy.
STATE-BASED GROUPS
Northeast
Energy Efficiency Partnerships (NEEP)
Press contact: Alicia Dunn,
781.860.9177 ext. 110, [email protected]
NEEP was founded in 1996 as a
non-profit whose mission is to serve the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic to
accelerate energy efficiency in the building sector through public policy,
program strategies and education. Our vision is that the region will fully
embrace energy efficiency as a cornerstone of sustainable energy policy to help
achieve a cleaner environment and a more reliable and affordable energy system.
Southwest
Energy Efficiency Project (SWEEP)
Press contact: Suzanne Pletcher,
303.447.0078 ext 5, [email protected]
SWEEP promotes greater energy
efficiency in a six-state region that includes Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New
Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming — a high-growth region that is making great strides
in advancing energy efficiency since 2002. Check out our site to learn about the
status of energy efficiency efforts in the region, and what SWEEP is doing to
help consumers, businesses, utilities, and local and state governments increase
energy efficiency.
South-central
Partnership for Energy Efficiency as a Resource (SPEER)
Press contacts: Doug Lewin,
512.279.0753, [email protected]
Mike Gehrig, 512.448.4950, [email protected]
SPEER is a 501(c)3 non-profit
organization with a mission is to accelerate the adoption of advanced building
systems and energy efficient products and services in Texas and Oklahoma. SPEER
works to advance the understanding and adoption of energy efficiency as a
low-cost energy resource, driver of economic growth and competitiveness, and
air quality improvement strategy. SPEER designs, implements, coordinates, and
supports regional projects to promote high energy performance and clean
distributed energy in the built environment.
One of the world’s leading international nonprofit organizations, Environmental Defense Fund (edf.org) creates transformational solutions to the most serious environmental problems. To do so, EDF links science, economics, law, and innovative private-sector partnerships. With more than 3 million members and offices in the United States, China, Mexico, Indonesia and the European Union, EDF’s scientists, economists, attorneys and policy experts are working in 28 countries to turn our solutions into action. Connect with us on Twitter @EnvDefenseFund
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