The Alliance Continues to Shed Light on CAFE, Lighting Efficiency Standards, Cold Water Washing and Others
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The media regularly quote the Alliance's in-house experts and feature the Alliance's accomplishments in energy efficiency. The latest media coverage of the Alliance includes:
- London-based Energy Efficiency News used a quote on the upcoming Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards by Alliance Senior Vice President for Research and Policy Floyd DesChamps, based on an news release.
- Green Builder Magazine wrote about the Alliance’s support for the Sensible Accounting to Value Energy (SAVE) Act which calls for a home’s energy efficiency features to be taken into account in mortgage lending activities. In another article in this issue, Energy Efficient Codes Coalition Executive Director Bill Fay discusses how builders are adapting to the stricter energy building codes.
- The Alliance continues to educate consumers and industry stakeholders about the new lighting efficiency standards. Senior Communications Associate Allyson Schmutter shed some light on the market advantages of lighting products that meet the standards for Architect magazine. The Minnesota-based nonprofit Fresh Energy also included the Alliance’s statistics on the substantial electricity savings that the standards will deliver.
- Environmental Leader covered Procter and Gamble's new partnership with the Alliance with a goal to convert 100 million U.S. households from using warm and hot water for laundry to cold water washing by Earth Day 2013.
- Alliance Director of Policy Lowell Ungar and Director of Media Relations Ronnie Kweller provided information on the soon-to-expire homeowner energy-efficiency tax credits to the Akron Beacon Journal.
- Shoe String Venture, a popular blog aimed at start-up businesses, included energy-saving tips for computers based on a study by the Alliance and Associate 1E.
- George Washington University's student newspaper GW Hatchet wrote about their participation in the Eco-Challange. The Alliance will provide training and toolkits to "eco-reps" from three universities as a part of the first inter-collegiate energy conservation competition in the east coast.
