On nearly every line of families’ household budgets, costs are climbing. Rents and mortgage interest rates are making it difficult to afford housing, grocery prices are making it harder to put food on ...

COLUMBIA COUNTY — John Harpis has watched Federally Funded magicians save him a considerable amount of money every month. The 69-year-old Navy veteran’s home has benefited from the weatherization ...

Energy efficiency is a win-win-win for the United States. It saves homeowners money, it puts Americans back to work, and it helps avoid the most catastrophic consequences of climate change. But energy ...

BRATTLEBORO — Each year, between 1,000 and 1,300 Vermont households receive weatherization assistance from the Office of Economic Opportunity with thousands of dollars of upgrades to make their homes ...

The federal Weatherization Assistance Program is the oldest and largest energy efficiency initiative in American history. Born from the 1973 oil crisis, it helps low- and moderate-income households ...

Scotlandville resident Gloria Hawkins, 71, used to get up at 3 a.m. to cook breakfast so heat from the kitchen wouldn't circulate around her house during the day. Before she received assistance from ...

A program to help some of North Carolina’s poorest residents cool their homes in the summer and heat their homes in the winter has seen a slow start, frustrating nonprofit agencies across the state ...

Nonprofits that administer a program to prepare the homes of low-income North Carolinians are criticizing N.C. Department of Environmental Quality leaders for what they call a lack of cooperation and ...