Standards in the News

9/23/2013

NRDC blog post by Robin Roy

9/23/2013

Climate Progress Guest Blogger Lisa Heinzerling mentions efficiency standards languishing at OIRA.

9/23/2013

Cass Sunstein, former Director of OMB, writes about appliance standards in this New York Times editorial. He states that "monetary benefits dwarf the costs."

9/23/2013

NEEA (Northwest Energy Efficiency Association) reports on a new energy efficient technology for dryers. Heat pump dryers are already in use in Europe and efforts are underway to bring them to the U.S.

9/23/2013

Consumer Reports asks readers which president signed into law the first federal standards to make appliances more efficient? 

9/23/2013

ACEEE released a white paper entitled The Rebound Effect: Large or Small? The paper is written in a "question and answer" format designed to summarize what we know, what we do not, and---given what we know---how large the rebound effect is likely to be.