Efficiency advocates chafe at potential omission from energy standard

Energy efficiency advocates are expressing frustration that Capitol Hill Democrats appear increasingly likely to omit an energy efficiency standard from their forthcoming $3.5 trillion economic policy package with other major climate policy elements. “We see an efficiency standard as well as a clean electricity standard as peanut butter and jelly: It’s hard to imagine one without the other,” said Steven Nadel, executive director of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, told E&E News . “It’s a powerful strategy...