EPA Climate Programs Prevent Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Save Dollars
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In 2006, EPA’s status endorsement programs prevented 70 meg turn heaps of copy equal edifice pedal emissions - up from 63 meg in 2005, according to a newborn inform free today.
The report, “Energy Star and Other Climate Protection Partnerships 2006 Annual Report” includes highlights of fund from the government’s Energy Star program. In 2006, Americans, with the support of Energy Star, avoided edifice pedal emissions equal to those from 25 meg automobiles in 2006 – up from 23 meg in 2005 – patch action more than $14 1000000000 on their forcefulness bills. Americans also ransomed a momentous turn of forcefulness in 2006 – 170 1000000000 kilowatt hours (kWh) – or nearly fivesome proportionality of the amount 2006 energy demand.
Other EPA status endorsement programs hit also had enthusiastic accomplishments. A some accomplishments from 2006 highlighted in the inform include:
– Partners of EPA’s Green Power Partnership—which scarred its fivesome assemblage day in 2006–purchased nearly 7 1000000000 kilowatt hours of naif electricity.
– The Climate Leaders Program grew to over 100 companies–representing more than octad proportionality of amount U.S. edifice pedal emissions–and threesome partners declared the action of battleful edifice pedal change goals previously ordered finished the program.
– EPA’s methane programs and initiatives same the Landfill Methane Outreach Program helped derogate amount U.S. methane emissions to more than 10 proportionality beneath 1990 levels.
The inform info the environmental and scheme accomplishments of these programs and outlines goals for 2007 and beyond.
Copies of the “Energy Star and Other Climate Protection Partnerships 2006 Annual Report” are acquirable for download at http://www.epa.gov/cpd/annualreports/annualreports.htm
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Press Release: Sept 26, 2007
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