Audit Finds Vulnerability of EnergyStar Program

The New York Times March 25, 2010 By Matthew L Wald

There have been a bunch of ridiculous products that were submitted for approval since last June by Congressional auditors posing as companies. In a nine-month study, four fictious companies invented by the accountability office also sought EnergyStar status for some conventional devices like dehumidifiers and the heat pump models. There were fake companies that submitted data indicating that the models consumed 20 percent less energy than even the most efficient ones on the market today. Those applications were approved without a challenge or even questions.
This author has researched in and out the responses of how to get EnergStar questioned by the authorities. Matthew discovered that there were bogus products being made and no one felt the right to make it work.

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