Obama Calls for More Efficient Refrigerators

President Obama called for more efficient refrigerators in his first Earth Day address.

“I’ve issued a memorandum to the Department of Energy to implement more aggressive efficiency standards for common household appliances, like dishwashers and refrigerators. We actually have made so much progress, just on something as simple as refrigerators, that you have seen refrigerators today many times more efficient than they were back in 1974. We save huge amounts of energy if we upgrade those appliances. Through this — through these steps, over the next three decades, we will save twice the amount of energy produced by all the coal-fired power plants in America in any given year.”

On Earth Day, Obama stresses clean energy [Boston Globe]

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