The Home Star Coalition, a broad-based and diverse group of small and medium sized businesses and nationally recognized companies, labor and environmental organizations and associations, today applauded the inclusion of the Home Star legislation in The Clean Energy Jobs and Oil Company Accountability Act.

“Home Star is good policy, but even better practicality in its ability to deliver a triple win for America - it creates clean energy jobs for our nation's skilled construction workers and at U.S. manufacturing facilities, it benefits homeowners through comfort and energy efficient improvements to their homes, and it helps the environment through long-term energy efficiency gains,” says WellHome President Larry Laseter.

“I am a second-generation insulation contractor with branch operations in Arizona, Nevada and California,” says Insulation Contractors Association of America (ICAA) President Jeff Banker, of Banker Insulation in Phoenix Arizona. “Passage of the HOME STAR legislation would enable our family-owned business to hire contractors in all of our locations. I urge the Senate to please help small businesses across America by passing HOME STAR.”

The Home Star legislation, which passed the House in May, has bi-partisan support and over 30 co-sponsors in the Senate. Home Star also has the support of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM).

Home Star is a market-driven, low-bureaucracy program they say would create jobs fast by scaling the existing home energy efficiency improvement industry.