Energy Star has emerged stronger after Trump’s EPA tried to end it

NPR cited CEI’s work on the EPA

President Trump’s proposed budget last year would have zeroed out Energy Star funding at the EPA. Calls for ending or privatizing the program have come mostly from libertarian and conservative groups, such as the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Heritage Foundation.

“We see consumer ratings for a very broad variety of things, including Consumer Reports, which provides guidance to consumers to buy different products. I don’t see why appliances should be any different,” says Diana Furchtgott-Roth, director of the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment. She argues that if the federal government didn’t provide Energy Star and people found the information useful enough, a private company would step in to fill the need.

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