Sentences with phrase «appliance efficiency standards»

Our government is very slow at updating appliance efficiency standards.

Where does Mr. Barnes stand on the role of laws that require more carbon efficiency, such as better CAFE and appliance efficiency standards as well as building and electrical codes that would create a generation of much more carbon efficient buildings?

In the U.S., for example, estimates of the SCC have played a key role in establishing the stringency of appliance efficiency standards, fuel economy standards, and power plant regulations.

No question that the California home insulation standards of 1977, and the electric appliance efficiency standards starting in the same year led to less fuel / electricity use and thereby less co2 emissions than if the standards had not been enacted.

Prominent among them are stronger automobile fuel - economy standards, higher appliance efficiency standards, and financial incentives supporting the large - scale development of wind, solar, and geothermal energy.

The good news is that policies put into place over the last three decades — including appliance efficiency standards, voluntary labeling programs like ENERGY STAR, and state energy - savings targets — have already helped offset rising demand for electricity and saved consumers billions of dollars.

Among industrial countries, Japan's Top Runner Program is the most dynamic system for upgrading appliance efficiency standards.

Accelerate replacement of incandescent lights with florescent, and raise appliance efficiency standards.

They cited as an example appliance efficiency standards.

Site - based regulations, such as appliance efficiency standards and measurement, can lead to higher energy resource consumption as well as higher levels of pollution.

-- No credits shall be issued for electricity savings achieved as a result of compliance with a national, State, or local building, equipment, or appliance efficiency standard.

These include utility program spending, Energy Efficiency Resource Standards (EERS), appliance efficiency standards, building codes, combined heat and power, mass transit spending, state facility and fleet management, and vehicle fuel economy.

We are going to defend our fuel economy standards; we are going to defend our appliance efficiency standards; our Congressional delegation is going to make sure that incentives for wind and solar investments stay on the books.

Collins acknowledged the Obama administration's tightening of auto and appliance efficiency standards and then got down to business: