The Energy Policy Modernization Act (EPMA) of 2015 (S.2012) is the comprehensive bipartisan bill that is supported by most members of the Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee.
AWC urges the House to retain its version of the energy language in any final energy efficiency legislation that is approved by the U.S. Congress and sent to the President for his signature.
Yesterday, the US House of Representatives passed the North American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act (H.R. 8). This bill contains harmful building energy codes language that a large number of other professional societies and nonprofit stakeholder organizations oppose.
In a way only he could, on Wednesday night former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien kicked off the 21st annual Canadian-American Business Council summit with a 13-minute speech that drew a lot of laughs.
OSHA is in the final stages of a ruling that will allow them to create a public database of workplace injuries and illness, which is scheduled for March completion.
The Texas Supreme Court heard oral arguments to determine if a general contractor was a "seller" under Chapter 82 of the Civil Practice and Remedies Code and entitled to indemnification from the manufacturer of an allegedly defective roof truss.
In relation to the ongoing Canada/U.S. softwood lumber debate, Zoltan Van Heyninegen, the executive director of the U.S. Lumber Coalition, says that the main problem lies in how the American and Canadian governments award timber contracts.
With little chance of a broad energy legislation making it to the Senate floor this year, energy efficiency lobbyists and the authors of the energy efficiency bill are quietly looking for ways to move their narrower measure forward.
