Winning on The Margins

++The new budget bill has the largest support for wind and solar energy in our history--even bigger than in the stimulus package.

++Ernest Moniz,Secretary of Energy, announced the largest energy saving standard in history. It will save $167billion in energy costs and result in 885 million tons of less carbon dioxide emission--that's about a gigaton. 

++Now the boring part,this measure is apt to be the most significant measure taken before the Paris agreement takes effect in five years. 

++Drumroll--it is a standard governing commercial air conditioners and furnaces. The new standard covers 10% of all commercial space in the country and affects almost half the energy and heating costs for half the commercial space.

++No doubt some lobbyist is figuring out how to stop it. This is the type of policy decision it is hard to imagine another Administration taking.