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• Major Home Appliance Efficiency Gains to Deliver Huge National Energy and Water Savings and Help to Jump Start the Smart Grid (posted 8/3/10)

• New National Water Heater Standards Give Efficiency a Major Boost (posted 4/1/10)

• New Water Heater Efficiency Standards Deliver Savings - But Not Enough (posted 12/2/09)

• HVAC Manufacturers, Efficiency Advocates Ink Historic Efficiency Standards Agreement (posted 10/13/09)

• New Standards Will Make Beverage Vending Machines Energy Sippers: DOE Meets President Obama’s Pledge for Five New Energy Standards by August Nearly Two Dozen More Expected this Term (posted 8/31/09)

• ASAP and ACEEE Release Ka-BOOM! The Power of Appliance Standards: Opportunities for New Federal Appliance and Equipment Standards (posted 7/22/09)

• President Obama Announces New Light Bulb Standards: Biggest Energy Saver in the History of Energy Department (posted 6/29/09)

• New Efficiency Standards for Vending Machines Deliver Energy Savings "Pop" (posted 5/28/09)

• U.S. DOE Heats Up New Energy Standards for Home Furnaces: Court Grants Obama Administration Request to Reconsider Weak Bush-era Standard (posted 4/23/09)

• Bush Fumbles Hand-off to Obama on Energy Efficiency Standard, New Lighting Standards Could Be Biggest Energy Saver Ever But Proposal Falls Short (posted 1/15/09)

• Energy Department Gives Energy Savings the "Cold Shoulder," Some New Commercial Refrigeration Efficiency Standards Fall Short (posted 1/9/09)

• New U.S. Standard for Home Furnaces Is a "Turkey," Missed Opportunity to Cut Energy Bills and Global Warming Emissions (posted 11/19/07)

• New Electric Distribution Transformer Standards Improve on Earlier Proposal, But Fall Short of Utility Industry and Environmental Group's Recommendation (posted 10/12/07)

• Transformer Manufacturer Announces Support for Efficiency Standard, Boosting Proposal Being Considered by the U.S. Department of Energy (posted 7/17/07)

• Efficiency Advocates Announce Landmark Agreement on Higher Energy and Water Efficiency Standards (posted 5/01/07)
  
  
• Utilities, Efficiency and Environmental Groups Join to Propose New Efficiency Standard for Electric Transformers (posted 2/20/07)

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Outside News

• The Appliance Standards Improvement Act of 2009 (posted 3/20/09)



• Appliance Standards Not Aggressive Enough (poster 3/5/09)



• Appliance Standards Move into the Limelight (posted 2/5/09)