New York Times: The Department of Energy has awarded $2.7 billion in energy efficiency block grants, but recipients have spent little more than 8 percent of that money, according to a recent report from the agency’s inspector general. Hampered by administrative delays and bureaucratic confusion, the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program has thus far failed to stimulate the economy as the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act intended, IG auditors wrote. But they also recognized …