Since the inauguration of the Trump Administration, the status of several kinds of funding has been thrown into question. Amid conflicting reports of a federal funding freeze of a wide variety of programs and [...]
According to the Energy Information Administration’s 2020 Residential Energy Consumption Survey, Midwestern households are less electrified than those in other regions. 12 percent of homes in the Midwest are all-electric, compared to 25 percent [...]
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), passed in August 2022, provided nearly $90 billion to 27 programs for residential, commercial, and public building decarbonization and electrification. Two years later, the federal government is getting the [...]
This is the first in a two-part Data Story series on how we use and pay for the energy in our homes. Over the last few years, rising energy bills have been a hot [...]
The residential and commercial building landscape features a diversity of space heating, cooling, and water heating equipment. These technologies vary in terms of the fuels they draw on and their efficiency, with electric heat [...]
A recent report by Healthy Buildings, a partnership between For Health and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, found that governmental investment in public schools for maintaining building quality and ensuring environmental [...]
As the most gas- and propane-dependent region in the country, the Midwest is a national laggard when it comes to building electrification and heat pump adoption. However, new developments in both local and state [...]
To achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 across the U.S. economy, a robust effort must be undertaken to decarbonize the buildings sector. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, direct emissions generated from residential and [...]
Fifty-nine percent of all U.S. households are still dependent on fossil fuels for primary space heating, according to the most recent 2020 Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS). Natural gas is the most prevalent space [...]
War, Energy, and Politics As the largest single supplier of piped gas and petroleum to the European market, Russia has long brandished its energy resources as geopolitical leverage against its Western neighbors. In [...]
