Energy efficiency effort goes national - Local / Metro - TheState.com

Meg Kinnard
During a teleconference with reporters on Tuesday, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that he was putting $250 million into the national adoption of the program, which allows rural electric cooperative customers to take out USDA-funded loans to make energy upgrades and pay back the loans through their monthly utility savings.

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