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ICAST’s Work with Environmental Justice Communities Advances Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion As recently announced, ICAST was awarded $50,000 in funding from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to serve multifamily affordable housing (MFAH) property owners in environmental justice (EJ) communities in New Mexico. Maintaining healthy, affordable housing is a clear EJ goal: it promotes healthy, productive, and sustainable environments for …
Case Study: Getting Ahead of the Decarbonization Curve By Mark Fogarty / Issue: June 2022 Projects in New York and Salt Lake City Save Tons on Carbon Annually Decarbonization, changing from fossil fuels to electric, is a word affordable multifamily asset managers are going to need to learn in a hurry, if they don’t know it already. And that’s true even if the electricity …
ICAST Signs Contract to Create Energy Efficiency and Healthy Homes in Environmental Justice Communities ICAST recently signed a contract with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to facilitate green upgrades for small business multifamily affordable housing (MFAH) property owners in New Mexico. ICAST will provide property owners with the necessary support to help them pursue green retrofits, including information on the …
Kristen Cheriegate | ICAST Policy Analyst ******************* White House Publishes Clean Energy Opportunities On April 20, the White House published a fact sheet on the Administration’s creation of cost-saving clean energy opportunities to combat the climate crisis. The following are included directly from the publication: HUD-Assisted Multifamily Housing Benefits from Solar The U.S. Department of …
ICAST Releases Resource Guide for Deploying Innovative Green Technologies in Multifamily Housing Since 2020, ICAST has been implementing a U.S. Dept. of Energy-funded program to catalyze the mass adoption of very high-efficiency (VHE) heat pump-based HVAC and water-heating technologies in multifamily affordable housing (MFAH). VHE heat pumps can help reduce MFAH residents’ utility bills, cut carbon emissions, and preserve and …
Kristen Cheriegate | ICAST Policy Analyst ******************* President Biden Releases Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Proposal On March 28, President Biden released his $5.8T fiscal year (FY) 2023 budget proposal. The final FY22 budget was not everything the President had hoped for, so it is fair to wonder how well the proposed budget for FY23 will hold up. That being …
Kristen Cheriegate | ICAST Policy Analyst ******************* President Biden’s State of the Union Address Regarding energy, President Biden’s March 1 State of the Union (SOTU) address is arguably one of the most important recent events from the Executive Branch. It was there that the President said that energy-savings options his Administration supports would save the average American family $500 per …
ICAST Awarded $2 Million Healthy Homes Production Grant The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently awarded ICAST a $2M Healthy Homes Production Grant to retrofit at least 200 low-income (LI) multifamily homes in New Mexico. ICAST will collaborate with local partners to identify properties with significant home environmental hazards (e.g., radon, mold) and deliver healthy homes and …
Kristen Cheriegate | ICAST Policy Analyst ******************* The Future of the Build Back Better Bill The Build Back Better (BBB) bill may be dead in the water in its original form. President Biden said in a White House Press conference that the authors will “have to probably break it up,” and that he has “been talking to [his] colleagues on …
260+ Companies Call on Congress to Finalize Legislation to Deliver Clean Energy January 24, 2022 The Honorable Charles E Schumer, Majority Leader U.S. Senate Washington, D.C. 20510 The Honorable Nancy Pelosi, Speaker U.S. House of Representatives Washington, D.C. 20515 Dear Leader Schumer and Speaker Pelosi: As companies committed to building America’s clean energy future, we write to thank you for …