The Energy Star program, initiated in 1992, has played a crucial role in promoting energy-efficient appliances and reducing electricity consumption significantly, saving five trillion kilowatt-hours and four billion metric tons of greenhouse gases. Despite its success and recognition as one of the most effective government programs, recent reports suggest that the Trump Administration plans to dismantle the Energy Star initiative as part of a broader reorganization of the Environmental Protection Agency. This raises concerns about the impact on energy efficiency standards and environmental protections.
Decisions like this are being made hundreds of times per minute-each day, it's estimated, more than a million Energy Star-certified products are sold.
Energy Star-once again, according to its website-has, in the course of the past thirty-three years, reduced electricity demand by five trillion kilowatt-hours and cut greenhouse-gas emissions by four billion metric tons.
...the Trump Administration was planning to scrap the Energy Star program as part of its reorganization-or, if you prefer, decimation-of the E.P.A.
called-admittedly, by its own website-'one of the most successful voluntary U.S. government programs in history.'
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