Given that small businesses consume a significant portion of the nation’s electricity and natural gas for commercial and industrial use, NSBA is encouraging its members to reduce their energy consumption and improve their energy efficiency by participating in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 2012 ENERGY STAR® National Building Competition. Running through May 23, EPA is accepting [...]

NSBA recently unveiled a new, comprehensive energy and environmental policy proposal aimed at addressing increased energy costs and the continued U.S. reliance on unstable foreign sources of energy, and outlines the negative impact these issues have on small-business growth. A long-time outspoken proponent of the mutually beneficial relationship shared between small-business growth and energy and [...]

The regulation of Tier 3 emissions and a further reduction in the sulfur content in gasoline could have a negative impact on our economy. “If plants close as a result of this or other EPA rules, workers will lose their jobs, local and small businesses will lose their customers, and state and local governments will lose [...]

The Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for User (SAFETEA-LU) – the current federal law authorizing our federal highway and transit programs – is set to expire on March 31, 2012. Whether or not the House and Senate can reconcile the differences in their bills before time runs out remains to be seen. The most [...]

The National Small Business Association (NSBA) today released a new report, “Profiling Energy Industry Entrepreneurs: What Can Be Done to Foster Clean Energy Entrepreneurship in a Time of Fiscal Restraint?” which offers detailed information on the emerging industry of small, clean energy businesses. “Up to this point, very little has been known about these companies other [...]