Senate Bill Would Increase Efficiency Standards for Numerous Consumer Products
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chair Bingaman (D) issued a press release on his recently introduced bill to strengthen and improve energy efficiency standards for a wide range of consumer products. According to Bingaman, the "Implementation of National Consensus…
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Appliance Agreements Act of 2010" (S. 398) would increase efficiency standards for such energy-intensive products as furnaces, air conditioners, heat pumps, refrigerators, freezers, clothes washers and dryers, and dishwashers. It also would create new standards for certain outdoor lighting, pool heaters, drinking water dispensers, commercial food cabinets and several other smaller product classes. Bingaman says it is an updated version of the appliance standards legislation that the Senate nearly passed at the end of the last Congress.