Officials of Santa Monica, CA are taking into consideration a proposed code that would require both new homes, as well as major renovations to a home, to provide access for people in wheelchairs.
In his final weekly radio address of 2001, President George W. Bush reviewed his initial year in office, which he said saw success in the war on terrorism as well as success on the home front.
President George W. Bush plans to emphasize domestic security in the State of the Union address and will ask for billions of dollars in various security measures in his new budget.
According to a Congressional review, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has not adequately ensured that owners of nuclear power plants have enough money to safely operate and eventually decommission their plants.
Gail D. Fosler, chief economist of the Conference Board, told the New York Times that she has become more optimistic about the economy than she was several months ago.
Southern California Gas Co. has unveiled plans for a new approach to saving energy that combines on-site power generation with an energy-efficient heating and cooling system.
The U.S. Combined Heat and Power Association (USCHPA), Distributed Power Coalition of America (DPCA), and American Gas Cooling Center (AGCC) have formed a strategic alliance to seek enactment of policies to support distributed energy and combined heat and power (CHP).
According to the National Housing Conference (NHC), “over 13 million American families, including four million low-to-moderate-income working families, have critical housing needs — that is they spend more than 50% of their incomes for housing or live in severely substandard housing.”
