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Businesses Call on Congress to Preserve Energy Goals
October 27, 2016
Some 600 businesses and the American Institute of Architects have written the committee reconciling House and Senate energy legislation, urging legislators to resist special interest pressure and preserve the law that sets goals for federal buildings to cut fossil fuel use by 2030. Section 433 of...
AIA Criticizes Senate Vote on Energy-Efficient Federal Buildings
April 20, 2016
The American Institute of Architects criticized the U.S. Senate for passing S. 2012, the Energy Policy Modernization Act, which repeals energy-efficiency targets in federal buildings passed in 2007. “Cutting fossil fuel consumption in new and renovated federal buildings by 2030 is clearly somet...
Section 179D: Extended for 2015 and 2016
December 18, 2015
Congress has passed a tax extenders package that renews the Section 179D energy-efficient building deduction for two years — 2015 and 2016. (The 2015 renewal applies retroactively to buildings placed into service since the beginning of this year.) The renewal came as part of the Protecting Ame...