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Last month I reported that the California Energy Commission (CEC) was holding a workshop on rulemaking for enforcing appliance efficiency standards (see: The CEC Looks at Efficiency Enforcement). The purpose of the effort is to establish an enforcement process to determine penalties and collection procedures on imported goods that violate California’s efficiency standards. This month [...]

At the beginning of the year, the U.S. EPA implemented a new ENERGY STAR® certification process, requiring manufacturers to have their products tested by third-party EPA-recognized labs. (In the past, companies were allowed to submit test results based on in-house testing.) The change was implemented after products were found to have received approval for using [...]