VT would get job boom out of Home Star energy bill

Vermont's lone representative to the U.S. House said today in Springfield that a bill designed to make homes more energy efficient would help create jobs.

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20100503/NEWS03/100503013/Peter-Welch-says-Vermont-would-get-job-boom-out-of-Home-Star-energy-bill  # # # # VT would get job boom out of Home Star energy bill  •  May 3, 2010 Associated Press  •  SPRINGFIELD, Vt.—Vermont's lone representative to the U.S. House says a bill designed to make homes more energy efficient would help create jobs.  •  Democratic Rep. Peter Welch says the Home Star Energy Retrofit Act being considered by Congress would create 170,000 jobs nationally in construction, retail and manufacturing.  •  Welch spoke Monday in Springfield at a plant operated by JELD-WEN, a company that makes energy efficient doors. The company owns another plant in Ludlow. The two plants collectively employ 213 people in Vermont.  •  Welch says Home Star would help improve 3 million homes and save families $10 billion in energy costs over 10 years.  •  Welch says the act is due to be voted on by the U.S. House on Thursday.  •