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Boulder County, Colorado, now has hope for re-establishing its residential ClimateSmart Program, thanks to a recent decision in the Northern District Court of California and an amendment recently introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives.

Early in June, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced an initiative to help owners of apartment buildings, and other multi-family type rentals, borrow the money to “green” their buildings.

In the ongoing controversy over property-assessed clean energy financing, commonly referred to as PACE, one voice has been conspicuously absent in the national debate -- Palm Desert, the city that actually wrote California's pioneering law on the use of public works-style assessment

SunRun, a solar financing company that aids homeowners with their home solar installations, has been accused of working to undermine the Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program which would make public funding available for similar projects.