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Do you want to save money and fight climate change, without sacrificing comfort or convenience? Becoming more energy efficient accomplishes all that and more. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has several programs and tools to help deliver the benefits of reducing your energy consumption.

The Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) continued to improve its environmental protection efforts at its South Table Mountain and National Wind Technology Center sites during 2014 by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, adding bird-safety features to campus structures, and assessing environmental impacts of potential laboratory development

U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, today released the following statement after he and 48 of his colleagues introduced resolutions of disapproval with bipartisan support to stop the regulatory overreach of President Obama's Clean Power Plan rule

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged The St. Joe Company, a Watersound, Florida-based real estate developer and landowner, its former top executives, and two former accounting department directors, with improperly accounting for the declining value of its residential real estate developments during the financial crisis. As a result of this misconduct, St. Joe reported materially overstated earnings and assets in 2009 and 2010.

A Georgia real estate investor pleaded guilty today for his role in conspiracies to rig bids and commit mail fraud at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Georgia. Trent Gaines admitted that he and others conspired not to bid against one another at public real estate foreclosure auctions from October 2008 to November 2010 in Fulton County, Georgia, and from September 2006 to February 2011 in DeKalb County, Georgia.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced over $7 million in funding to support Navajo Nation’s environmental programs, wastewater infrastructure development, community education and capacity building. The announcement was made at the 23rd Annual Regional Tribal Conference in Reno, Nev.

As part of EPA’s Green Power Partnership, more than 1,300 organizations are purchasing billions of kilowatt-hours of green power annually, avoiding carbon pollution equal to that created by the electricity use of more than 2.5 million American homes.

Home Heating Costs Have Become A Larger And Larger Share Of Every New Yorker’s Budget – Schumer & Gillibrand Urged U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services To Provide Maximum Amount, And As Soon As Possible, To NY Families

Rhode Island businesses, government agencies and nonprofit organizations are advised that Nov. 1, 2015 is the deadline for filing annual unclaimed property reports with the Rhode Island Treasury

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the USDA is awarding loans and grants to more than 1,100 rural small businesses and agricultural producers, including two in North Florida, to help reduce energy usage and costs in their operations. A grant of $13,171 will be awarded to Adams Farms, in Jackson County, to install a 10KW Solar Electric System, and $103,239 will be awarded to Woodham Peanut Co., in Holmes County, to install a new energy-efficient drying system.

The Department of Transportation announced today that the City of Phoenix’s Grand Canal Bike and Pedestrian Improvements Project has been awarded a $10.3 million grant by the department’s National Infrastructure Investments or TIGER VII Discretionary Grant Program

U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.) today led a delegation including Senator Ben Cardin, Congressman Elijah E. Cummings, C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger and John P. Sarbanes (all D-Md.) announcing that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will rescind its plan to reduce rent subsidy levels for residents eligible for the federal Housing Choice Voucher Program in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson region.

Congressman Dan Kildee (MI-05) today announced that he will hold a telephone town hall for Flint residents on Wednesday, October 28, 2015, at 7 p.m. ET to discuss his demand for an investigation into the Flint water crisis and provide an update on his work to bring federal attention to the crisis as well as the latest efforts to improve water quality. On the call, Congressman Kildee will be joined by water and public health experts Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha and Dr. Marc Edwards, whose critical research helped to uncover high lead levels in the city’s water supply.

U.S. Senator Barbara A. Cardin (D-Md.) today led a delegation including Senator Ben Mikulski, Congressman Elijah E. Cummings, C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger and John P. Sarbanes (all D-Md.) announcing that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will rescind its plan to reduce rent subsidy levels for residents eligible for the federal Housing Choice Voucher Program in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson region.

Congressman Elijah E. Cummings joined U.S. Senators Barbara A. Mikulski and Ben Cardin and Congressmen C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger and John P. Sarbanes (all D-Md.) to announce that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will rescind its plan to reduce rent subsidy levels for residents eligible for the federal Housing Choice Voucher Program in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson region. The proposed change in policy from HUD, part of the agencies’ annual fair market rent update, received a detailed review following a meeting Senator Mikulski convened on Capitol Hill with U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Julian Castro

Representatives Chellie Pingree and Bruce Poliquin said today that 14 small businesses in rural Maine will be getting $1.7 million in USDA funding to invest in efficiency and clean energy projects. The grants, through the USDA's Rural Energy for America Program (REAP), fund projects like solar panels, anaerobic digesters to create electricity from waste, and thermal conversion systems

Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (KY-01) today introduced two resolutions under the Congressional Review Act disapproving of two final rules issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from new and existing fossil-fuel fired power plants. One resolution relates to EPA’s CO2 emissions rule for new plants under section 111(b) and the second resolution relates to EPA’s rule for existing plants under section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act.

The Long Island Sound Study has released a new Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan for restoring and protecting the Long Island Sound, setting 20 ambitious targets to be achieved by 2035. Among these goals are: a reduced number of beach closures due to sewage pollution; a reduced area of the Sound with unhealthy oxygen levels; improved water clarity; restored coastal wetlands; increased open space; and a reduction in the amount of plastic marine debris in the Sound

EPA today joined state and local dignitaries to announce $5 million in federal funding to continue efforts of the Southeast New England Program for Coastal Watershed Restoration. The program brings together innovation and partnerships to apply an ecosystem approach to protecting and restoring the coastal watersheds of southeast New England from Westerly, R.I. to Chatham, Mass., including Narragansett Bay and all other Rhode Island coastal waters, Buzzards Bay, and southern Cape Cod

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) today announced the U.S. Department of Transportation will award three California projects with grants from this year’s Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) program