USCM urges Mayors to support energy block grant.(United States Conference of Mayors)

Nation's Cities Weekly, January, 2008 by Duvall, Cherie

After a successful collaboration with Congress to pass the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant, the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) is encouraging may ors to engage members of Congress to help secure the initial $2 billion in appropriations to promptly fund the new program.

"Of course this was a tremendous victory, but our job certainly is not done," said USCM President Douglas H. Palmer, mayor of Trenton, N.J., during the USCM Winter Meeting last week in Washington, D.C. "With passage of the bill, we now have the authorizing language, but we now need Congress to fund the program."

The $10 billion block grant was created to support efforts to increase energy efficiency, reduce energy use and accelerate progress on climate protection...

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