The first energy bill of the 114th Congress is heading toward the President’s desk for signature.

On April 21st, the eve of Earth Day, Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Rob Portman (R-OH) announced that their Energy Efficiency Improvement Act of 2015 overwhelmingly passed the House after passing the Senate earlier in March.

Senators Shaheen and Portman have pressed for more comprehensive energy efficiency legislation in one form or another since 2011. Despite broad bipartisan and private sector support from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Alliance to Save Energy, the Business Roundtable, and the Environmental Defense Fund, the duo’s efforts have stalled multiple times on non-germane and/or procedural grounds. So for right now, the fact Congress passed any energy legislation is a small victory in and of itself.