low income

State Energy Assistance Directors call for increased funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP). They describe the struggles of low-income residents of their states facing sharply rising energy prices.

Representatives from states across the U.S. speak in a conference cosponsored by the National Association of State Energy Officials about their challenges facing a winter with rising heating and fuel costs, particularly trouble low-income Americans will have paying heating bills with diminishing grants available at the same time of rising heatingcosts.

Sen. Coleman speaks in favor of America's Climate Security Act (ACSA), which is projected to reduce total U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions,particularly the provisions of which that help shield low-income Americans from the costs of climate change solutions.

Panelists outline proposals from the Center on Budget & Policy Priorities designed at directing a percentage of allowances from a carbon cap-and-trade toward low-income Americans to hold them harmless from increased costs associated with climate change solutions.