Senator-elect Bob Casey, Jr.

In a year-end press conference this week, State Treasurer and U.S. Senator-elect Bob Casey highlight several environmental programs among his accomplishments as Treasurer.

Those programs included:

· Establishing the Keystone Green Fund which promotes greater public and private investments in clean technologies such as alternative and renewable energy sources developed with the help of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council and other partners; and

· Launching of KeystoneHELP (Home Energy Loan Program), which helped thousands of homeowners throughout Pennsylvania borrow money at low interest rates to purchase energy-efficient appliances and to make other energy star improvements to their homes that will conserve energy and reduce heating and cooling costs.

12/22/2006