• Around the States: Financing Opportunities Pop Up Along the East Coast

    Updated: 2011-09-30 17:39:08
    Power NY: New York Passes First in National On-Bill Financing Legislation This summer, New York became the first state to offer on-bill financing to fund energy efficiency retrofits.  The Power NY Act of 2011 allows low to moderate income utility customers to make energy efficiency upgrades to their homes and pay for them through the [...]

  • Rehberg Amendment Passes Critical Committee Vote

    Updated: 2011-09-30 17:39:08
    A bill to fund the EPA has passed out of committee with a key amendment that would ban enforcement of the Lead Rule until the agency approves a commercially available lead test kit. The House Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee passed the FY 2012 Interior-Environment Appropriations Bill by a vote of 28-18 last [...]

  • How Is The Debt Limit Like A Rookie Salary Cap?

    Updated: 2011-09-30 17:39:08
    If you had asked me two months ago which would be resolved first, the debt ceiling debate or the NFL Lockout, I would have told you that it was a no brainer that Congress would raise the debt ceiling before the August 2 deadline. Just a few weeks ago there was talk of getting it [...]

  • Industry Capitol Hill Event Features HVACR & Hot Water Equipment Cake

    Updated: 2011-09-30 17:39:08
    Last night ACCA, along with our partners AHRI, HARDI, NATE, and PHCC, hosted a reception in the Rayburn House Office Building to introduce members of Congress and staff to our industry and its products. The featured attraction was a 250 pound cake depicting heating, ventilation, air condition, refrigeration, and hot water equipment from Carlo’s Bakery [...]

  • Airline Taxes Lapse But Airlines Continue To Collect Tax

    Updated: 2011-09-30 17:39:08
    Here’s a Washington story you may have missed with all the attention focused on the debt ceiling balanced budget vote. When Congress failed to pass a bill last week extending the authorization for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), airlines were no longer required to collect a host of taxes added to a passenger’s ticket price. [...]

  • Around the States: Contactor Protection and Efforts to Level the Playing Field

    Updated: 2011-09-30 17:39:08
    Pennsylvania: Putting Liability in its Proper Place Pennsylvania State Senator Lisa M. Boscola introduced a bill in Harrisburg that would take steps to protect HVAC contractors from claims related to mold or mold damage.  SB 647 would make HVAC contractors, unless otherwise agreed in writing, not liable for personal injuries, property damage or other damages, [...]

  • Obama Administration Looking to Change Union Organizing Rules

    Updated: 2011-09-30 17:39:08
    As you may know, Big Labor and their allies in the federal government are trying to enact the failed “card check” legislation through regulatory fiat. Federal regulators appointed by the Obama administration at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and Department of Labor (DOL) have proposed two new rules that threaten employers’ ability to seek [...]

  • Find Incentives in your Area

    Updated: 2011-09-30 17:39:08
    We’re excited to announce a new feature on the ACCA website that is designed to help contractors find energy efficiency incentives for their customers. The Database of State Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency (DSIRE) is an ongoing project of North Carolina State University and the Interstate Renewable Energy Council.  DSIRE serves as a comprehensive source [...]

  • Queensland Labor Govt stops solar installations – grid can not cope with solar systems

    Updated: 2011-09-26 00:36:57
    Queensland State Government admits electricity grid failing to cope with solar power systems. THE solar power revolution is in danger of stalling, with the State Government admitting the electricity grid is failing to cope with its green vision. ….. Energex said the state’s electricity network since the 1950s had been designed to deliver power from [...]

  • IPCC models have failed to correctly deal with changes in air density

    Updated: 2011-09-24 23:05:18
    Canadian scientist Dean Brooks has written a provocative paper pointing out that GCM’s have not handled atmospheric density changes correctly. You can download his 1MB pdf paper “The ‘Pot Lid’ Hypothesis: Where Does the Air Go?”. He has also written and published on “The Decline Effect – The law behind diminishing returns and wildly varying [...]

  • Addison AC Repair shares money saving tips

    Updated: 2011-09-22 20:40:03
    Addison AC Repair Total Air & Heat shares money saving tips. Keeping your home comfortable isn’t always cheap.  The good news is that there are things you can do to help curb increases in your energy bills during the warmer months of the year.  Listed below are Total Air and Heat’s Top 5 Hints for [...]

  • Garland Air Conditioning Company offers competitive financing options for system replacements

    Updated: 2011-09-20 17:19:16
    Garland Air Conditioning Company Total Air & Heat offers competitive financing options for AC and heating system replacements. Considering replacing your HVAC system?  Don’t delay any longer!  Chances are this blog has already taught you not to replace just one part of your system.  Obtaining the most energy-efficient and reliable system requires completely matched set [...]

  • McKinney AC Contractor helps prepare your HVAC system for fall

    Updated: 2011-09-20 17:19:15
    McKinney AC Contractor Total Air & Heat helps prepare your HVAC system for fall. It’s that time of year again.  As we head into fall, temperatures will be fluctuating up and down, and weather will be left unpredictable.  Despite all that, a change of season and scenery does everyone good.  Summer has given us a [...]

  • Garland AC Contractor recommends scheduling a home air conditioning efficiency test

    Updated: 2011-09-20 17:19:14
    Garland AC Contractor Total Air & Heat recommends scheduling a home air conditioning efficiency test. Are you getting the most from your home air conditioning and heating system?  Total Air & Heat recommends a HomeEnalasys so you can find out!  A HomeEnalasys is basically a high-tech check-up that evaluates your home’s HVAC system.  The process [...]

  • Plano HVAC Contractor helps get your air conditioning system operating at its best

    Updated: 2011-09-20 17:19:14
    Plano HVAC Contractor Total Air and Heat helps get your air conditioning system operating at its best. Do you remember your first car?  It was more than likely a clunker that only served to get you from point A to point B.  However, think about the important lessons it may have taught you.. how to [...]

  • Allen Air Conditioning and Heating Repair offers residential and commercial services

    Updated: 2011-09-20 17:19:13
    Allen Air Conditioning and Heating Repair Total Air & Heat offers residential and commercial services. Allen AC Contractor Total Air & Heat provides an assortment of services for both residential and commercial air conditioning, heating, and ventilation units. Such services include basic AC repairs, routine maintenance checkups, extensive repairs, replacements, and more. Our goal is [...]

  • McKinney AC Contractor talks staying cool during the scorching summer

    Updated: 2011-09-20 17:19:13
    McKinney AC Contractor Total Air & Heat talks staying cool during the scorching summer. Every year August hits, and the temperature rises to unbearable levels.  Put simply, it gets hot, real hot.  To make things worse, summer energy bills go up alongside the heat.  What are homeowners to do? First, the more you can keep [...]

  • Plano Air Conditioning and Heating Company warns against delaying AC maintenance

    Updated: 2011-09-20 17:19:12
    Plano Air Conditioning and Heating Company Total Air & Heat warns against delaying AC maintenance. The month of August can be brutal not only for your comfort level but for your air conditioning system as well.  If you have been without a system inspection for an extended length of time, then you are putting yourself [...]

  • Must see – eye glazing US Debt Clock

    Updated: 2011-09-19 02:03:25
    Take time and have a coffee while you try and grasp the numbers. Best I go and “peg” another gold EL.

  • The case against the Australian Govts new Carbon Tax

    Updated: 2011-09-18 23:43:46
    Videos putting the case against the Carbon Tax. Note other links on right hand side to a series of videos against the Carbon Tax. Thanks to the Galileo Movement.

  • New Zealand Govt backs down on ETS

    Updated: 2011-09-17 22:26:06
    Nice to see reality hitting in GodZone across the ditch. Spies have told me of these headlines in New Zealand – I note the Green/pinko Australian media has ignored this so far. Prime Ministers might say one thing when rubbing noses at some Pacific Forum but when the hoopla is over….. The Otago Daily Times [...]

  • Green MP says NSW Govt wasting dam water to benefit Kurnell desalination plant economics

    Updated: 2011-09-12 08:54:55
    NSW Upper House Green MP John Kaye is raising the issue that the NSW Govt has stopped pumping surplus Shoalhaven water to Warragamba dam to keep Warragamba under 80% full – which apparently is the trigger level for shutting down the Kurnell seawater desalination plant. He says the Govt wants to sell Kurnell and I [...]

  • Obama never mentioned – global warming – IPCC – Kyoto – carbon – greenhouse effect or climate change

    Updated: 2011-09-09 22:51:49
    Thanks to the ABC we heard the Obama jobs speech (8 Sept 11). You would not have thought the great IPCC driven boondoggle of a “climate threat” even existed. How crazy is Australia to be burdening our economy with the GreenLabor Carbon Tax.

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