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Our Mission

Funded in 2009 as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants (EECBG) are empowering thousands of cities and counties to create new clean energy jobs through investments in building efficiency, community scale renewable energy, and other projects that save energy. However, the grant program will end in 2011 without action by the Obama Administration and Congress.

Climate Communities has organized the Energy Block Grants Work! campaign to:

1. Convince President Obama to fully fund the EECBG program at $2 billion in his FY 2012 budget request to Congress, and
2. Urge Congress to include an ongoing source of funding for the EECBG program in proposed climate/energy legislation.

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What can you do?

Your community’s leadership is critical to the Energy Block Grants Work! campaign’s success. Get involved and help Climate Communities ensure that local communities across America can continue to play their part in building a clean energy economy.

As communities across the country implement their EECBG projects, it’s critical that the White House, DOE and Congress hear about your successes. We’re encouraging cities and counties to help spread the word about the EECBG program by downloading the Energy Block Grants Work! community toolkit. The toolkit includes:

1. A resolution supporting renewed EECBG funding;
2. A model press release to showcase your EECBG projects locally;
3. A sample invitation for DOE Secretary Steven Chu and other senior DOE officials to attend your local EECBG groundbreaking/ribbon-cutting events;
4. Sample op-eds and letters to the editor in support of the EECBG program; and
5. A sample letter to President Barack Obama, DOE Secretary Steven Chu and your Congressional delegation highlighting how your community is saving energy, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and creating jobs with EECBG resources.