This site provides information on programs that have been assessed for effectiveness using the Program Assessment Rating Tool, commonly referred to as the PART.

WHITEHOUSE: Testimony of Director Portman

This Request for Information lays out the guiding principles that DOE will use to develop each part of the Rating Program.

WHITEHOUSE: Rating Home Energy Performance

"Our hope is that we can be the central clearinghouse about campus sustainability, " says Laura Matson, who's managing the rating program at AASHE.

FORBES: Magazine Article

This Rating Program will offer easy-to-understand and reliable information about the energy performance of an existing home that will help consumers to identify cost-effective energy efficiency improvements.

WHITEHOUSE: Rating Home Energy Performance

This week, the Department issued a Request for Information from the public to help inform its work on developing a National Energy Rating Program for existing homes.

WHITEHOUSE: Rating Home Energy Performance

Spokesman Matt Sloustcher said Coda is going for a four- or five-star New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) rating, which it plans to have in place by next year.

FORBES: Electric Car Rentals Start Next Week

The Obama administration has also made quality measurement a focus, rating the private health plans that operate in the program.

FORBES: Obama Administration Touts Private Medicare Plan Growth, Lower Premiums

After the markets closed Monday, Fitch Ratings downgraded AIG's long-term and short-term issuer default rating, as well as its senior unsecured debt and commercial paper program ratings.

FORBES: AIG Fights For Survival

The government, which has long played on its AAA rating as a sign of its economic might, has been pursuing a harsh program of spending cuts and tax increases to reduce the budget deficit, which at 7.4 percent of annual economic output is more than twice the EU's 3 percent limit.

NPR: UK In Dark Mood As New Recession May Be Confirmed