President Obama on Energy Efficiency Retrofits (December 15, 2009)
President Obama calls on Congress to provide new incentives for Americans to make energy-efficiency retrofits to their homes. December 15, 2009. (Public Domain)
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Pure Energy's A. Tamasin Sterner and other stakeholders in the home energy efficiency retrofit business met with Obama for a roundtable discussion prior to his speech (below). Participants included: Stephon Burgess, who was unemployed but recently hired to work on weatherization; Gerald Palmer, president of Southland Insulators; John Shields Jr., Sheetmetal Workers International Association; and Michael Thaman, chairman of Owens Corning building materials company.