3 posts and columns on Environmental Protection Agency

The Summer to Go on a Power Diet

in The Digital Solution on June 15, 2010 at 3:40 pm PT

Katie runs down ways to keep your energy bills down this summer.

Exodus: Apple Leaves Chamber of Commerce Over Climate Spat

in News on October 6, 2009 at 1:00 am PT

And then there were five–defections from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over its climate-change policy, that is. Apple today resigned its membership in the Chamber “effective immediately.” That’s a harsher tone than the other departures–three utilities said they’d let their membership lapse at the end of the year, and Nike simply quite the Chamber’s board of directors.

Electronics Industry Group Calls California TV Proposal Inefficient

in News on March 30, 2009 at 4:47 am PT

Just how much power TVs should use has become a matter of growing debate between the California Energy Commission and the consumer electronics industry. Next week, the Consumer Electronics Association is coming out with a new study in a salvo against the CEC over proposed rules for specific energy standards for TVs sold in California. Under the CEC’s proposed rules, 42-inch TVs sold in California must consume 183 watts or less by 2011, dropping to 115.5 watts by 2013. The CEC says it’s trying to make TVs more efficient to save the state and consumers money.