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The unlikely coalition fighting to keep Energy Star labels on your appliances | The Trump administration wants to eliminate the energy-efficiency program

grist.org The unlikely coalition fighting to keep Energy Star labels on your appliances

The Trump administration wants to eliminate the energy efficiency program, but bakers, builders, and chemical companies are trying to save it.

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"Energy efficiency program" right. I'm not actually heartbroken about an agency that famously gave certification to nonexistent products going away. It was always just a marketing ploy anyway. Can we maybe focus on the actual damage the fascists are trying to do?
- Maybe it’s not perfect and is prone to fraud, but it’s still better than zero efforts to improve energy efficiency and have an extremely wasteful product set from every manufacturer due to no oversight.
  Maybe the answer is to try to fix the fraud holes instead of getting rid of it completely. I’d rather have something in place than let corporations dictate anything whom will of course step on any aspect of being efficient or long lasting in order to maximize profits.
  
  I agree. I definitely don't think that it should be shut down, I was just tactlessly trying to say something along the lines of "pick our battles" or maybe "this feels like a distraction."
- Not on the side of closing it down, I do believe it has goodwill value that reminds consumers to be attentive to energy use. But, it made me think of this article where they approved a gasoline powered alarm clock.
  https://gizmodo.com/a-fake-gas-powered-alarm-clock-once-got-energy-star-cer-1656128986
  
  Yeah I didn't mean to come down on the side of "shut it down" just that they have a history of absurdity even if they do mean well. I phrased myself poorly.
  
  This is one of the important ones
  It may be because luminary and no one requires you to buy energystar but this affects millions of consumer decisions every year. This adds up to a huge number every year and is a huge part of what little we do to slow climate change

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