Category: WAP
Green jobs, pink slips: Weatherization cuts hit hard
The nation’s investment in weatherization is taking a nosedive, raising concerns that newly minted technicians trained to make homes more energy-efficient will soon find themselves scrambling for work even while there remains much work to be done. At issue are cuts to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Weatherization Assistance Program, which is used to help low-income residents make energy
READ MOREWeatherization Assistance Program Ranked as Second Highest Recovery Act Job Creator
NASCSP released a press release titled " Weatherization Assistance Program Ranked as Second Highest Recovery Act Job Creator" on Tuesday, January 31, 2012. To read the release, please click here.
READ MORECuts Made on the Backs of Low-Income Americans
Cuts Made on the Backs of Low-Income Americans Weatherization Funding Slashed by 60% for Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 The FY 2012 Omnibus Appropriations bill, filed late on December 15, 2011 by the House Rules Committee, contained a stunning 60% cut to the Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP), down to $68 million from $174.3 million in FY 2011. This is the lowest funding level since 1978, the year
READ MOREWeatherization works: Recent reports are way off base
November 10, 2011 A recent article in Newsweek, “Obama’s Big Green Mess,” describes what can happen when contractors are “unfamiliar with the nuances of specialized weatherization work.” The fact is, installing furnaces that exhaust poisonous fumes, putting in water heaters that can explode and blowing toxic asbestos around a home, which the article points out, happens on a regular
READ MOREResponse to Daily Show: October 24, 2011
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart segment on the federal low-income Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) which aired on October 24, 2011 is misleading and, in some cases, factually inaccurate. The WAP network faced considerable administrative and managerial challenges in ramping up from a $250 million to $5 billion program. The majority of the states proceeded quickly and with due caution
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