Energy Efficiency
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Energy Savings and Impacts Scenario Tool (ESIST)
Energy Savings and Impact Scenarios Tool (ESIST) description and how to access.
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Webinar - States Taking Action to Align Utility Policies with Environment and Energy Goals
This August 2022 webinar featured three state regulatory experts on how states are increasingly adjusting and adopting programs to incorporate a broader set of environment and energy goals.
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How the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 Affects Light Bulbs
Inefficient light bulbs are being phased out under the "New Light Bulb Law." It does not sweepingly ban incandescent bulbs, just those not energy efficient (with some exemptions). It also includes many provisions not pertaining to lighting.
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Webinar - Learn about the CO-Benefits Risk Assessment (COBRA) Health Impacts Screening and Mapping Tool
This State and Local Climate and Energy Program webinar provides an overview of the CO-Benefits Risk Assessment Screening and Mapping Tool (COBRA). COBRA allows you to quantify the health benefits of air, climate, and energy policies and programs.
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Summary of the Energy Policy Act
Provides a summary of the Energy Policy Act, which addresses energy production in the United States, energy efficiency; renewable energy; oil and gas; coal; vehicles and motor fuels, and climate change technology.
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AVERT Webinars
This January 2023 webinar introduced AVERT 4.0, which allows users to model the "tailpipe to smokestack" energy and emissions impacts of electric vehicles. Results are presented at the county, state, and regional level, and can be incorporated into COBRA.
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Download ESIST
Energy Savings and Impact Scenarios Tool description and how to access.
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Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 2005 Greener Synthetic Pathways Award (Merck & Co., Inc.)
Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 2005 award winner, Merck, designed an atom-economical, energy- and water-saving, convergent synthesis for aprepitant, the active ingredient in Emend, a drug for nausea and vomiting.
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Webinar - Introducing the Energy Savings and Impacts Scenario Tool
Recording and slides related to the December 2021 webinar introducing EPA's Energy Savings and Impacts Scenario Tool (ESIST).
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Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 1996 Small Business Award
Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 1996 award winner, Donlar, developed thermal polyaspartate, a nontoxic, biodegradable, biobased polymer made in a highly efficient process for use in agriculture, water treatment, etc.