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- Groups take legal action over delayed standards
- The Niagara Falls of water savings - efficiency standards
- State of the states
- Companies fined $1 million for violations of CA efficiency regulations
- DOE update
- Standards around the world
- ASAP website now mobile-friendly
Issue Number 20 - October 2016
- "Next Generation" report shows enormous potential for appliance standards
- Reality for TVs: some manufacturers taking advantage of testing loopholes
- DOE takes major step forward in advancing new furnace efficiency standards
- The lighting revolution marches on
- Industry and efficiency proponents agree on big efficiency gains for pool pumps
- Standards proposed for cooking products and walk-in coolers
- Increase in sales of "rough service" incandescent bulbs will trigger DOE action
- State update: computers and monitors get screen time in CA
- Appliance standards by the numbers
- The lighting (r)evolution marches on
- Which one of these is not like the other?
- Proposed standards for portable air conditioners falls short
- California computers not idling
- Neighbors to the north aligning with US
- Updates on home AC, wine chillers, and rechargeable devices
Issue Number 18 - December 2015
- Research paper finds mismatch between expectations and observations
- New regional enforcement plan for central AC
- DOE fines 17 companies for non-certification
- No 'Roomba' for inefficient vacuums in CA
- Ultra-High Def TVs not all ultra efficient
- A+ grade for standards and labeling worldwide
- Standards around the globe
- Fun Facts: How well do you know your home appliances?
- Why are so many people spending so much time together at DOE?
- NRDC paper provides fascinating peek at our digital lives
- Moving one step closer to efficient furnaces
- What basement energy hog uses more energy than a refrigerator?
- Members of Congress trying to turn the clock back on energy efficiency
- Remember when light bulbs were just for lighting?
- Hot food, less energy waste for gas & electric ovens
- Fun Facts: National energy legislation
Issue Number 16 - January 2015
- 2014 Goes Out with a Bang (an Efficient Bang!)
- Working Group Pumps Out Pumps Recommendations
- Keeping Tabs on Compliance Dates
- Big Savings Across the 'Pond'
- Got Rooftop Air Conditioning?
- Fun Facts: Electric Motors
- DOE makes is Six for Six with Furnace Fans
- $60 Billion Year for Standards
- New Standards for Electric Motors
- Working Group to Tackle Regional Enforcement
- Will Dryer Use Finally Tumble?
- Fun Facts: Water Sense
- DOE: Three Months - Three Standards
- April Showers Will Bring...More DOE Standards
- Phase Out Doesn't Phase Consumers
- CFA Report Shows 500% Increase in Digital Device Energy Use
- Fun Facts: Cities with Highest Per Capita Sales of CFLs and LEDs
Special Edition - January 2014
- Top Quotes of the Year
Issue Number 13 - December 2013
- DOE issued an Average of One Standard Per Month Since August
- Getting Revved Up about Electric Motor Standards
- President Obama's Lofty Goals for Appliance Standards
- When the Lights Went Out on Superbowl LXVII
- Choices Abound as Inefficient Bulbs Are Phased Out
- Coming Soon To a Telephone Pole Near You
- Garlic, Standards, and Vampire Energy Waste
- California Preps For New Rulemaking
- State of the States
- Down The Regulatory Rabbit-Hole
- Power-Hungry Devices
- Fun Facts: How Many Dollars and Power Plants Does it Take to Run Our Modems and Routers?
Special Issue: New Report - May 2013
- Better Appliances: An Analysis of Performance, Features and Price as Efficiency Has Improved
- Data-Based Assessment of Efficiency Standards Finds Consumers Save More Than Energy Savings
- Hidden Gems
- Not-So-Happy Anniversary for Products Frozen at OMB
- A Chilling Settlement for Long-Overdue Furnace Standards
- Great Reports Think Alike
- Ducks in a Row for Energy Bill
- Midea Pays Fine
- What's an ASRAC?
- Fun Facts: Match Electronics With Cost to Operate
The Best of 2012 - January 2013
- ASAP's Inaugural Blog
- What Would Reagan Do? Cass Sunstein NYTimes Op-Ed
Issue Number 10 - September 2012
- Motors Geared Up for Savings
- Critical Battery Charger Decision
- Transformer Decision Awaited
- Washers & Dishwashers Loaded Up with Savings
- OMB Backlog Continues
- FTC Maps Out New Regional Labeling
- California Moving Ahead
- Fun Facts: Average Household Energy Use Up or Down?
Special Issue: New Report - March 8, 2012
- New Report Shows Huge Savings
- Cashing in on the Savings from Appliance Standards
- Top Ten Energy Savers
- Product Discussions
- State Standards
- Fun Facts: How Much Water Saved from Clothes Washer Standards?
Issue Number 9 - February 2012
- DOE Standards: Ballasts, Microwaves, Transformers
- A First for DOE - Regional Standards
- Standards Backlog at OMB
- Enforcement Activity Continues
- A Bright Start to the Year
- California: Big Energy Savings Come in Little Boxes
- Set-Top Boxes
- Fun Facts: How Many Battery Chargers in the U.S.?
Issue Number 8 - September 2011
- New Refrigerator Standards the 'Coolest' Yet
- More Cool Savings
- California Scopes Out the Next Energy Savers
- Pumps, Hoods, Blowers, What???
- What's Up at DOE?
- State of the States
- Fun Facts: How Many Cable Boxes in the U.S.?
- More Fun Facts: Water Waste
- Lighting a Hot Topic
- Myths and Reality
- See the Light! Visual Primer on Lighting Choices
- Watt's a Lumen???
- Fun Facts: Consumers Like the Lighting Alternatives
- Fact Sheets
- An 'Agreeable' Year for Appliance Standards
- Enforcement: An End to 35 Years of Inaction
- New Lables to Bring Information to Light!
- Why Care About Test Procedures?
- DOE Update
- TV Standards Official in CA
- Fun Fact: Cooking with Incandescents
Special E-Brief - September 2010
- White Goods Turn a New Shade of Green - New Agreement Between Efficiency Advocates and the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM) for Six Major Home Appliances: Clothes Washers, Dishwashers, Dryers, Refigerators, Freezers, and Room Air Conditioners
- New Water Heater Standards
- DOE says "Follow the Rules"
- Federal Legislation: Appliance Standards in the Senate
- DOE Update - Refrigerators, Fluorescent Lamp Ballasts, Small Motors, Dryers and Air Conditioners, Commercial Clothes Washers
- States - 6 States Propose Bills
- Fun Facts: Pay Only When You Play - Turn the Game Consoles Off!
Issue Number 4 - November 2009
- California Makes TV Efficiency a Reality
- Historic Agreement on HVAC Systems
- DOE Rescinds Obsolete TV Method
- Busy Times at DOE
- Massachusetts Heats Up the Action
- Court Orders DOE to Reconsider California's Clothes Washer Standards
- Washington State Sets New Standards
- President Obama Announces New Lighting Standards
- Ka-Boom Report Released
- Up Next: Water Heaters and Commercial Clothes Washers
- Arizona Passes State Standards
- Rulemaking 101
Issue Number 2 - February 2009
- Appliance Standards Move Into the Limelight
Issue Number 1 - December 2008
- Upcoming Fluorescent Tube and Incandescent Reflector Lamp Rulemaking
- Department of Energy Scheduled to Set 25 Appliance Standards in 3 Years
- Cooking Products and Commercial Clothes Washers
- Fun Fact: Are There More TVs or People in the US?
- Breaking New Ground: California to Set New Lighting Standards