Claim: The House of Representatives passed H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act in June 2009. A chain e-mail that has been forwarded to us repeatedly in recent days says that the bill would require homeowners to retrofit their houses to meet new energy standards, and obtain a license from the Environmental Protection Agency before they could sell a home. Don't believe it. The claims are false. In fact, we said last summer that claims that the bill requires such things were false in our Ask FactCheck titled "Energy Bill and Exisiting Homes."
Fact-check: Retrofit, Energy License Not Required - FactCheck.org
Verdict: the house of representatives passed h.r. 2454, the american clean energy and security act in june 2009. a chain e-mail that has been forwarded to us repeatedly in recent days says that the bill would require homeowners to retrofit their houses to meet new energy standards, and obtain a license from the environmental protection agency before they could sell a home. don't believe it. the claims are false. in fact, we said last summer that claims that the bill requires such things were false in our ask factcheck titled "energy bill and exisiting homes."
Organisation: FactCheck.org
Author: D'Angelo Gore
Date published: 2010-04-26T20:53:06