Appliance efficiency standards save consumers billions, reduce pollution and fight climate change
- Written by David J. Vogel, Professor Emeritus of Business Ethics and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Refrigerators were the target of the very first energy efficiency standards for appliances, back in 1974.Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump has said he wants to reverse decades of regulations about energy efficiency in American household appliances, claiming doing so will provide Americans with “freedom to choose”...