Standards in the News

9/23/2013
Report: Appliance Standards Save Consumers Money While Continuing to Provide Choices

NRDC blog post by Meg Waltner

9/23/2013
Why Your Parents' Appliances Cost More to Run Than Yours Do

Consumer Reports blog post

9/23/2013
New Secretary of Energy Can Reduce Global Warming Pollution With Efficiency Standards and Continued Support For Clean, Renewable Energy

NRDC blog post by Peter Lehner

9/23/2013
New Efficiency Standards for Transformers from DOE

NRDC blog post by Robin Roy

9/23/2013
Sunstein's "Simpler Government" is Legally Suspect, Overly Secretive and Politically Unaccountable

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

9/23/2013
Climate Change: Lessons from Ronald Reagan

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
Clothes Dryers - Coming Into the 21st Century

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
Hail to the Chief Who Enacted Tougher Energy Standards

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

9/23/2013
The Rebound Effect: Real, but Not Very Large

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.