Washington, D.C., November 5, 2009 – The Alliance to Save Energy today praised the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee’s passage of the Clean Energy Jobs for American Power Act (S. 1733) as a major step toward enacting a carbon emission reduction target that would boost energy efficiency – one of the most effective and immediate cost containment tools for implementing a cap and trade system – across all energy end-use sectors in the U.S. economy.