ENERGY STAR Day: The Power of the Little Blue Label

(White House) Ed. note: This is cross-posted on EPA Connect, the official blog of EPA s leadership. See the original post here.

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Let’s start with a few numbers:
$300 billion in savings. That’s how much consumers and businesses have saved on utility bills in the last 22 years because of the ENERGY STAR program.
Two billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions avoided, or the equivalent to the annual emissions of more than 420 million cars, over the last 22 years. Thanks to our little blue ENERGY STAR label, folks are doing their part to reduce their greenhouse emissions and combat climate change.
Since President Obama took office, ENERGY STAR has helped American consumers and businesses save over one billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions and approximately $110 billion on their utility bills.
That’s one powerful little label.
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