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NEADA Executive Director Mark Wolfe published an Op-Ed in USA Today warning that the Trump Budget plans to eliminate LIHEAP entirely during a summer of extreme high temperatures.
NEADA Executive Director Mark Wolfe published a Letter to the Editor in the Washington Post outlining the dangers of extreme heat and explaining the need for increased LIHEAP funding.
Today, the National Energy Assistance Directors Association (NEADA) and the Center for Energy Poverty and Climate (CEPC) released their annual Summer Residential Cooling Outlook. We have found that consumers are going to be hit with record high prices for home cooling this summer, as the average cost of electricity is projected to reach $784, a …
Consumers are going to be hit with record high prices for home cooling this summer, as the average cost of electricity is projected to reach $784, a 6.2% increase from $737 last year and the highest cost of electricity on record. Prices are rising for two reasons: the cost of electricity is rising faster than …
NEADA sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on April 15 urging him to release as soon as possible the remaining LIHEAP funds available from the FY2025 Full Year Continuing Resolution and Extensions Act. NEADA specifically requested that the final ten percent ($378 million) of the full appropriation be …
Home heating costs this winter will remain unaffordable for millions of lower income families. NEADA estimates an 8.7% increase from last year’s home heating costs for the full winter season. According to NEADA’s research, the cost of home heating is, on average, going to come to $941 for the whole winter. This cost is an …
Today NEADA sent a letter to Congressional leadership to request LIHEAP supplemental funding of $1.6 billion for FY 2025. This is the same level of supplemental funding that was requested last year by the Administration. These supplemental funds will maintain program support for families receiving LIHEAP assistance and will help address rising energy prices.
NEADA’s executive director sat down with C-SPAN’s Washington Journal to discuss high energy prices this winter and assistance for families.
By NEADA’s Mark Wolfe and Cassandra Lovejoy
