Washington DC - March 10 - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chairman of the Senate’s green jobs subcommittee, has introduced legislation to encourage the installation of 10 million solar systems on the rooftops of homes and businesses over the next decade.

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Washington DC - March 10 - Proposed federal energy efficiency jobs provisions would create about 333,000 jobs in 2010 and then 184,000 jobs in 2011, according to a new analysis released by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy.

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ashington DC - March 8 - Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced the Department of Energy has offered a conditional commitment for a $72 million loan guarantee to SAGE Electrochromics,  developers of the world’s only commercially available, electronically “tintable” window glass.

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Washington DC - March 8 - Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced funding for 191 new Recovery Act transit projects in 42 states and Puerto Rico that will help transform the nation’s infrastructure and support thousands of jobs across the country.

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Washington DC - March 3 - Nonfarm private employment decreased 20,000 from January to February 2010 on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to the ADP National Employment Report.

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Washington DC - March 2 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that applications are being accepted to provide affordable rental housing to rural residents through the Guaranteed Rural Rental Housing Program.

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Washington DC - March 2 - Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced that every state and the District of Columbia met the March 2 Recovery Act deadline to “obligate” – or commit to specific projects – 100 percent of their highway Recovery funds.

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Washington DC - March 2 - Federal Housing Finance Agency Acting Director Ed DeMarco announced the extension of the Home Affordable Refinance Program, a refinancing program administered by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to June 30, 2011. The program is a key component of the Administration’s Making Home Affordable Program announced last February.

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Washington DC - March 1 - The U.S. Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce announced that construction spending during January 2010 was estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $884.1 billion, 0.6 percent below the revised December estimate of $889.6 billion.

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Washington DC - March 1 - U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced $9.9 million in grants to provide training and other services to minority- and women-owned businesses in 33 states to help them compete for highway contracts.

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Washington DC - February 24 - Federal Reserve chairman Ben S. Bernanke delivered the Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to Congress before the House Committee on Financial Services.

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Washington DC - February 24 - Sales of new single-family houses in January 2010 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 309,000, according to estimates released jointly today by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. This is 11.2 percent below the revised December rate of 348,000.

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Washington DC - February 23 - Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced $1.37 billion in loan guarantees under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to BrightSource Energy, Inc. to support the construction and start-up of three utility-scale concentrated solar power plants.

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Washington DC - February 22 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that facilities in 40 rural communities across a dozen states will be upgraded with loan and grant funding provided through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

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Washington DC - February 18 - From major highway projects to green retrofits of military facilities and manufacturing of advanced batteries, more than 55,000 projects across the country have now been funded through the Recovery Act.

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