Energy Star—lame-duck imprimatur
To the lay consumer, the Energy Star label signals environment friendliness, energy efficiency, and an all around fuzzy warm feeling that you’re doing something to curb your carbon footprint. But the latest internal audit from the Energy Department has concluded it doesn’t properly track whether specific appliances meet the required specification for energy efficiency. What steps will be taken to regulate it and who calls the shots?
To the lay consumer, the Energy Star label signals environment friendliness, energy efficiency, and an all around fuzzy warm feeling that you’re doing something to curb your carbon footprint. But the latest internal audit from the Energy Department has concluded it doesn’t properly track whether specific appliances meet the required specification for energy efficiency. What steps will be taken to regulate it and who calls the shots?
Guests:
Kathleen Hogan, deputy assistant secretary for energy efficiency at the U.S. Department of Energy
Mark Connelly, deputy technical director for Consumer Reports, where he manages the laboratories for product testing
- Patt Morrison for October 20, 2009
- Water main roulette continues troubles for DWP
- While water flows in the streets of L.A., will there be a deal in Sacramento?
- AG Brown sues State Street bank to recoup $200 million in losses
- Energy Star—lame-duck imprimatur
- “Unsustainable”—U.S. debt on a collision course w/our way of life
- State of Seafood report isn’t as fishy as we feared
- Pandora’s music genome project
Also on this episode
Events
Comedy Congress Live
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
7:30 p.m.
- 9 p.m.
The comedic material emanating from Washington D.C., and state capitols across the country, is enough to make any sitcom writer jealous, even if most of that comedy is unintentional. Our motto on Comedy Congress is that just when politics makes you want to cry, it’s usually best to laugh.
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