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Portfolio Manager 301: Spreadsheet uploads, Setting Goals, and Creating Custom Reporting Templates (Web-based)https://ww...
01/31/2025

Portfolio Manager 301: Spreadsheet uploads, Setting Goals, and Creating Custom Reporting Templates (Web-based)
https://www.fedcenter.gov/Events/index.cfm?id=42881


March 25, 2025
1:00 – 2:15 PM (Eastern)
Are you well-versed in the basic functionality of the EPA’s ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager tool and ready to take advantage of more advanced features? If so, join this webinar to learn about the tool’s most advanced features, including using spreadsheet upload templates to update property data, setting goals and targets to plan energy improvements for properties, creating custom reports, and using the Sustainable Buildings Checklist. Attend this webinar if you’re interested in learning about Portfolio Manager’s most advanced features, including goal setting, custom reports, and more.

Are you well-versed in the basic functionality of the EPA's ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager tool and ready to take advantage of more advanced features? If so, join this webinar to learn about the tool's most advanced features, including using spreadsheet upload templates to update property data, setti...

Verifying ENERGY STAR NextGen (Web-based)https://www.fedcenter.gov/Events/index.cfm?id=42880       March 18, 2025 1:00 –...
01/31/2025

Verifying ENERGY STAR NextGen (Web-based)
https://www.fedcenter.gov/Events/index.cfm?id=42880


March 18, 2025
1:00 – 2:00 PM (Eastern)
Do you verify commercial building applications for ENERGY STAR NextGen? ENERGY STAR® NextGen is a new level of certification for U.S. commercial and multifamily buildings. It builds on the ENERGY STAR certification, available since 1999. ENERGY STAR NextGen-certified buildings are independently verified to be among the nation's most energy-efficient, low-emissions buildings. This webinar, based on the ENERGY STAR Guide for Licensed Professionals, covers the role of the licensed professional, as well as requirements for verifying commercial and multifamily building applications for ENERGY STAR NextGen.

Do you verify commercial building applications for ENERGY STAR NextGen? ENERGY STAR® NextGen is a new level of certification for U.S. commercial and multifamily buildings. It builds on the ENERGY STAR certification, available since 1999. ENERGY STAR NextGen-certified buildings are independently ver...

01/30/2025

Portfolio Manager 201: Editing Property Details, Data Quality Checker, and Sharing Property Data (Web-based)
https://www.fedcenter.gov/Events/index.cfm?id=42879


March 6, 2025
1:00 – 2:15 PM (Eastern)

Build on your basic knowledge of EPA’s ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager tool by taking a deeper dive into more advanced features, such as editing property data, correcting and updating property use details, using the data quality checker, and sharing property data with other users.
Attend this webinar if you’re interested in going beyond the basics of Portfolio Manager functionality and learning about property sharing, improving data quality, and more.

Delay of Effective Date for 4 Final Regulations Published by the Environmental Protection Agency Between November 29, 20...
01/30/2025

Delay of Effective Date for 4 Final Regulations Published by the Environmental Protection Agency Between November 29, 2024, and December 31, 2024 (Final)
https://www.fedcenter.gov/Articles/index.cfm?id=42878


In accordance with the memorandum of January 20, 2025, from President Donald J. Trump, entitled “Regulatory Freeze Pending Review,” this action temporarily delays until March 21, 2025, the effective date of the regulations listed in the table below. EPA has initially identified 4 regulations that meet the criteria in the memo and may identify additional regulations in subsequent notices. As of January 28, 2025, the effective date of the rules published at 89 FR 102568 (12/17/2024), 89 FR 95034 (11/29/2024), 89 FR 106357 (12/30/2024), and 89 FR 107012 (12/31/2024), are delayed to a new effective date of March 21, 2025. POC is William Nickerson, Director, Office of Regulatory Policy and Management, Office of Policy, Mail code 1804, EPA, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460; (202) 566-0326; [email protected]. (Federal Register 28 January 2025 [Rule] Pages 8254-8255)

In accordance with the memorandum of January 20, 2025, from President Donald J. Trump, entitled

01/28/2025

Portfolio Manager 101: Navigating Portfolio Manager, Adding a New Property, and Entering Use Details (Web-based)
https://www.fedcenter.gov/Events/index.cfm?id=42877


March 4, 2025
1:00 – 2:15 PM (Eastern)
Join us as we introduce and demonstrate the core functionality of EPA’s ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager tool. Attendees will learn how to navigate Portfolio Manager, add a property and enter details about it, enter energy and water consumption data, and generate performance reports to assess progress.
Attend this webinar if you’re interested in getting started with benchmarking, understanding how to assess your energy performance and generating reports.

How to Apply for Designed to Earn the ENERGY STAR Recognition (Web-based)https://www.fedcenter.gov/Events/index.cfm?id=4...
01/28/2025

How to Apply for Designed to Earn the ENERGY STAR Recognition (Web-based)
https://www.fedcenter.gov/Events/index.cfm?id=42876


February 27, 2025
1:00 – 2:15 PM (Eastern)
Join us to learn how to apply for Designed to Earn the ENERGY STAR Recognition, the EPA's recognition program for design projects. We'll walk through benchmarking the project in Target Finder and Portfolio Manager, downloading the Statement of Design Intent (SEDI), and submitting the completed form to the EPA.

Join us to learn how to apply for Designed to Earn the ENERGY STAR Recognition, the EPA's recognition program for design projects. We'll walk through benchmarking the project in Target Finder and Portfolio Manager, downloading the Statement of Design Intent (SEDI), and submitting the completed form....

01/27/2025

Verifying ENERGY STAR Certification (Web-based)
https://www.fedcenter.gov/Events/index.cfm?id=42875


February 25, 2025
1:00 – 2:00 PM (Eastern)
Do you verify commercial building applications for ENERGY STAR certification? This webinar, based on the ENERGY STAR Guide for Licensed Professionals, covers the role of the licensed professional, as well as requirements for verifying commercial building applications for ENERGY STAR certification.

Portfolio Manager 301: Spreadsheet uploads, Setting Goals, and Creating Custom Reporting Templates https://www.fedcenter...
01/27/2025

Portfolio Manager 301: Spreadsheet uploads, Setting Goals, and Creating Custom Reporting Templates
https://www.fedcenter.gov/Events/index.cfm?id=42874


February 20, 2025
1:00 – 2:15 PM (Eastern)
Are you well-versed in the basic functionality of the EPA’s ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager tool and ready to take advantage of more advanced features? If so, join this webinar to learn about the tool’s most advanced features, including using spreadsheet upload templates to update property data, setting goals and targets to plan energy improvements for properties, creating custom reports, and using the Sustainable Buildings Checklist. Attend this webinar to learn about Portfolio Manager’s most advanced features, including goal setting, custom reports, and more.

Are you well-versed in the basic functionality of the EPA's ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager tool and ready to take advantage of more advanced features? If so, join this webinar to learn about the tool's most advanced features, including using spreadsheet upload templates to update property data, setti...

How to Apply for ENERGY STAR Certification (Web-based)https://www.fedcenter.gov/Events/index.cfm?id=42873         Februa...
01/27/2025

How to Apply for ENERGY STAR Certification (Web-based)
https://www.fedcenter.gov/Events/index.cfm?id=42873


February 18, 2025
1:00 – 2:15 PM (Eastern)
Join us to learn about applying for ENERGY STAR certification in Portfolio Manager. Understand the value of the ENERGY STAR certification, see the step-by-step process of applying, and gain tips to help your property get from application to award.

Join us to learn about applying for ENERGY STAR certification in Portfolio Manager. Understand the value of the ENERGY STAR certification, see the step-by-step process of applying, and gain tips to help your property get from application to award.

Portfolio Manager 201: Editing Property Details, Data Quality Checker, and Sharing Property Data (Web-based)https://www....
01/24/2025

Portfolio Manager 201: Editing Property Details, Data Quality Checker, and Sharing Property Data (Web-based)
https://www.fedcenter.gov/Events/index.cfm?id=42869


February 13, 2025
1:00 – 2:15 PM (Eastern)
Build on your basic knowledge of EPA’s ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager tool by taking a deeper dive into more advanced features, such as editing property data, correcting and updating property use details, using the data quality checker, and sharing property data with other users.

Attend this webinar if you’re interested in: Going beyond the basics of Portfolio Manager functionality. Learning about property sharing, improving data quality, and more.

Build on your basic knowledge of EPA's ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager tool by taking a deeper dive into more advanced features, such as editing property data, correcting and updating property use details, using the data quality checker, and sharing property data with other users. Attend this webinar....

Part 1: A Beginner’s Guide to Using Portfolio Manager for Benchmarking Law Compliance (Web-based)https://www.fedcenter.g...
01/24/2025

Part 1: A Beginner’s Guide to Using Portfolio Manager for Benchmarking Law Compliance (Web-based)
https://www.fedcenter.gov/Events/index.cfm?id=42868


February 11, 2025
1:00 – 2:30 PM (Eastern)
Are you a building owner who needs to comply with a state or local mandatory benchmarking requirement? Do you have little or no experience using EPA’s Portfolio Manager tool? You’ve come to the right place! This webinar will serve as a beginner’s guide to Portfolio Manager and provide you with all the essential “how-to” information you need to start benchmarking and reporting your building data to your local or state government. Topics will include understanding how state and local jurisdictions use EPA’s Portfolio Manager tool to facilitate reporting and how to set up your Portfolio Manager account and properties, enter energy data, and report or share data with your jurisdiction.

Are you a building owner who needs to comply with a state or local mandatory benchmarking requirement? Do you have little or no experience using EPA's Portfolio Manager tool? You've come to the right place! This webinar will serve as a beginner's guide to Portfolio Manager and provide you with all t...

01/24/2025

Portfolio Manager 101: Navigating Portfolio Manager, Adding a New Property, and Entering Use Details (Web-based)
https://www.fedcenter.gov/Events/index.cfm?id=42867


February 4, 2025
1:00 – 2:15 PM (Eastern)
Join us as we introduce and demonstrate the core functionality of EPA’s ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager tool. Attendees will learn how to navigate Portfolio Manager, add a property and enter details about it, enter energy and water consumption data, and generate performance reports to assess progress. Attend this webinar if you’re interested in: Getting started with benchmarking. Understanding how to assess your energy performance. Generating reports.

Benchmarking Properties with Offsite Renewable Energy Generation (Web-based)https://www.fedcenter.gov/Events/index.cfm?i...
01/24/2025

Benchmarking Properties with Offsite Renewable Energy Generation (Web-based)
https://www.fedcenter.gov/Events/index.cfm?id=42866


January 28, 2025
1:00 – 2:00 PM (Eastern)
The method for entering green power in ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager has changed. Join us to learn how to correctly benchmark properties that use offsite electricity. When green power is entered correctly—capturing the various flows of grid and renewable electricity in and out of the property—Portfolio Manager accounts for the impact of offsite renewables on energy performance and greenhouse gas emissions. This training will cover: The data required to enter offsite green power. How to enter offsite green power into Portfolio Manager. The impacts of offsite green power on ENERGY STAR metrics. The eligibility requirements for NextGen.

The method for entering green power in ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager has changed. Join us to learn how to correctly benchmark properties that use offsite electricity. When green power is entered correctly--capturing the various flows of grid and renewable electricity in and out of the property--Port...

Leveraging the Unique Position of The Forestry Sector in the Carbon Sphere (Web-based)https://www.fedcenter.gov/Events/i...
01/24/2025

Leveraging the Unique Position of The Forestry Sector in the Carbon Sphere (Web-based)
https://www.fedcenter.gov/Events/index.cfm?id=42865


February 13, 2025
12:00 -1:00 PM (Eastern)
The Westervelt Company’s Sustainability and Government Relations team will share insights into how a private land management company is navigating the realm of carbon in today’s markets and socio-political climate. Westervelt is proud to be a leader in an industry that provides nature-based climate solutions and will discuss how they promote this facet of their business to policymakers, environmental organizations, and the general public. They will discuss some of their internal efforts in greenhouse gas accounting and available carbon accounting tools as well as emerging technologies in which they are engaged. They will discuss leveraging legislation and where policymakers can increase nature-based climate solutions to have tangible impacts on climate change.

The Westervelt Company's Sustainability and Government Relations team will share insights into how a private land management company is navigating the realm of carbon in today's markets and socio-political climate. Westervelt is proud to be a leader in an industry that provides nature-based climate....

Expanding End of Life Management for Large Format Batteries–Recycling and Refurbishing (Virtual Event)https://www.fedcen...
01/23/2025

Expanding End of Life Management for Large Format Batteries–Recycling and Refurbishing (Virtual Event)
https://www.fedcenter.gov/Events/index.cfm?id=42864


April 24, 2025
2:00 – 3:00 PM (Eastern)
Please join EPA for two webinars this spring to gather input from interested parties on best practices for collecting large-format batteries to increase recycling, as well as labeling these batteries to improve collection and recycling. For purposes of these discussions, large format batteries are rechargeable batteries over 25 pounds or more than 2000 watt-hours and often used in electric, hybrid, and internal combustion engine vehicles; other motive equipment; and stationary energy storage systems. This working session will focus on both recycling and refurbishing large format batteries. Speakers will discuss recycling capacity, recycler’s needs, safety concerns, and other market issues. On the refurbishment side, speakers will explore the current state of the market along with associated challenges and safety practices.

Please join EPA for two webinars this spring to gather input from interested parties on best practices for collecting large-format batteries to increase recycling, as well as labeling these batteries to improve collection and recycling. For purposes of these discussions, large format batteries are r...

Current Standards and Practices for Collecting Large Format Batteries for Recycling (Virtual Event)https://www.fedcenter...
01/23/2025

Current Standards and Practices for Collecting Large Format Batteries for Recycling (Virtual Event)
https://www.fedcenter.gov/Events/index.cfm?id=42863


February 11, 2025
2:00 – 3:00 PM (Eastern)

Please join EPA for two webinars this spring to gather input from interested parties on best practices for collecting large-format batteries to increase recycling, as well as labeling these batteries to improve collection and recycling. For purposes of these discussions, large format batteries are rechargeable batteries over 25 pounds or more than 2000 watt-hours and often used in electric, hybrid, and internal combustion engine vehicles; other motive equipment; and stationary energy storage systems. This working session will provide an overview of the current policy landscape, attitudes, and trends around large format battery recycling. The EPA will share applicable findings from the small- and mid-format working sessions, and speakers will share their perspectives and lessons learned on managing large format batteries.

Please join EPA for two webinars this spring to gather input from interested parties on best practices for collecting large-format batteries to increase recycling, as well as labeling these batteries to improve collection and recycling. For purposes of these discussions, large format batteries are r...

Demonstrating Technologies for Treating Soil and Groundwater Impacted by 1,4-Dioxane (Web-based)https://www.fedcenter.go...
01/22/2025

Demonstrating Technologies for Treating Soil and Groundwater Impacted by 1,4-Dioxane (Web-based)
https://www.fedcenter.gov/Events/index.cfm?id=42860
#1,4-dioxane

January 30, 2025
1:30 – 2:30 PM (Eastern)
This SERDP and ESTCP webinar focuses on DoD-funded research efforts to remediate 1,4-dioxane at DoD facilities. Specifically, investigators will discuss bench-scale testing to configure commercially available membranes for 1,4-dioxane bioreactor treatment and efforts to demonstrate phytoremediation for the treatment of 1,4-dioxane and chlorinated solvent co-contaminants in groundwater.

This SERDP and ESTCP webinar focuses on DoD-funded research efforts to remediate 1,4-dioxane at DoD facilities. Specifically, investigators will discuss bench-scale testing to configure commercially available membranes for 1,4-dioxane bioreactor treatment and efforts to demonstrate phytoremediation....

Monarch Butterfly Conservation on DoD Lands (Web-based)https://www.fedcenter.gov/Events/index.cfm?id=42859              ...
01/22/2025

Monarch Butterfly Conservation on DoD Lands (Web-based)
https://www.fedcenter.gov/Events/index.cfm?id=42859


January 28, 2024
2:00 – 3:00 PM (Eastern)
The Department of Defense has been involved in promoting pollinators like the monarch and pollinator habitat conservation efforts for more than a decade and has unique authorities and strong conservation programs that promote ecosystem resiliency across its land base of almost 27 million acres. The department's longstanding commitment has resulted in significant contributions to the conservation of monarch and other at-risk pollinators. Through an Interagency Agreement between the U.S. Forest Service – International Programs and Department of Defense Legacy Resource Management Program (DoD Legacy Program) for Monarch Butterfly Conservation, the Monarch Joint Venture (MJV) has made significant progress in conservation efforts on military lands. Presenters will discuss robust data collection efforts from 50 military installations across 22 states and how MJV and other partners are working together to improve habitat for monarchs and other pollinators on military lands.

The Department of Defense has been involved in promoting pollinators like the monarch and pollinator habitat conservation efforts for more than a decade and has unique authorities and strong conservation programs that promote ecosystem resiliency across its land base of almost 27 million acres. The....

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