Jay Inslee: “I am pleased to have helped add a little green idea to our higher education bill. I want to thank Chairman Miller for…”

“I am pleased to have helped add a little green idea to our higher education bill. I want to thank Chairman Miller for incorporating an idea that I have proposed into this manager's amendment, which will really help colleges in some of the terribly exciting work they are doing to green up their campuses. I visited Plymouth State University in New Hampshire a while back, which has built the Langdon Woods dormitory. It's a 100,000 square-foot dormitory. It's a beautiful dorm, and they are saving enormous amounts of energy because they built it green with good insulation, co-generation, triple-pane windows. It's a great idea. We have an amendment that has been incorporated that is going to help colleges move forward in three ways. First, it will call for those who use these Federal funds for the colleges to meet or exceed minimum energy efficiency standards for their new renovations or construction as developed by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, two other ways we are going to do it. Congratulations to these colleges.”