An Environmental Protection Agency plan to eliminate its Energy Star offices would end a decades-old program that gave consumers a choice to buy environmentally friendly refrigerators, dishwashers and ...

Energy Star, a public-private partnership administered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is reportedly on the chopping block as part of massive budget cuts proposed by the Trump ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jamie Gold writes about wellness design and related housing topics. If you’ve shopped for appliances in the last two decades, ...

The federal government's Energy Star program is in jeopardy. Almost 90% of Americans recognize the blue Energy Star logo, which the Environmental Protection Agency awards to the most energy-efficient ...

When you're shopping for a new clothes dryer you'll finally see the Energy Star logo on some dryers. Washing machines have long carried the Energy Star but for years dryers used about the same amount ...

Employees were told that the popular energy efficiency certification program would be “de-prioritized and eliminated,” according to documents and a recording. By Lisa Friedman and Rebecca F. Elliott ...