Energy (generally)
H.R. 7384
Update Type
Bills Introduced
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/7384
Committee Name
Committee on Education and Labor
Sponsor Name
Lynch
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-Mass.
Issue
6
Volume
52
Update Issue
10
Update Volume
52
Congress Number
117
Congressional Record Number
168 Cong. Rec. H4152

would direct the Secretary of Energy to establish a grant program to support energy efficiency, renewable energy, and climate resilience improvements at certain institutions of higher education.

H.R. 7360
Update Type
Bills Introduced
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/7360
Committee Name
Committees on Energy and Commerce and Science, Space, and Technology
Sponsor Name
Doyle
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-Pa.
Issue
6
Volume
52
Update Issue
10
Update Volume
52
Congress Number
117
Congressional Record Number
168 Cong. Rec. H4126

would require the Secretary of Energy to establish a program to provide federal financial assistance to support advanced nuclear reactors and associated supply chain infrastructure.

S. 3987
Update Type
Bills Introduced
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3987
Committee Name
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Sponsor Name
Heinrich
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-N.M.
Issue
5
Volume
52
Update Issue
10
Update Volume
52
Congress Number
117
Congressional Record Number
168 Cong. Rec. S1910

would require the Secretary of Energy to provide grants and loan guarantees for commercial-scale implementation of transformative industrial technologies.

S. 442
Update Type
Chamber Action
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/442
Issue
5
Volume
52
Update Issue
10
Update Volume
52
Congress Number
117
Congressional Record Number
168 Cong. Rec. S1860

which would amend Title 40, U.S. Code, to require the Administrator of General Services to procure the most life-cycle cost effective and energy-efficient lighting products and to issue guidance on the efficiency, effectiveness, and economy of those products, was passed by the Senate.

Building Better Building Performance Standards
Author
Danielle Spiegel-Feld and Katrina M. Wyman
Author Bios (long)

Danielle Spiegel-Feld is Executive Director of NYU Law’s Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy and Land Use Law and Adjunct Professor of Urban Environmental Law at NYU Law. Katrina M. Wyman is Sarah Herring Sorin Professor of Law at NYU Law.

Date
April 2022
Volume
52
Issue
4
Page
10268
Type
Comment(s)
Summary

Policymakers at the local, state, and federal levels are increasingly turning to building performance standards (BPSs) to reduce buildings’ contributions to climate change. A key question in designing BPSs is what “metric” the standards should use to gauge a building’s performance. This Comment provides general background information on the case for regulating energy use in buildings, reviews the two general categories of metrics in existing BPSs and explains why an energy efficiency-based standard is superior to a greenhouse gas-based standard, and highlights the findings from a study of New York City’s landmark BPS, Local Law 97 of 2019, that underscore the disadvantages of regulating greenhouse gas emissions as opposed to energy use in a BPS.

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