Sentence examples for federal efficiency from inspiring English sources

The program typically singles out products that exceed the federal efficiency standards by 10 to 20percentt, but those standards can be so lax that surpassing them is no great feat.

For the efficiency business as a whole, another benefit could come from a federal efficiency standard, a requirement that utilities offset a certain proportion of their growth in demand with energy-saving measures.

But Republicans stymied the Obama administration's efforts to pursue this policy, which has no downside, and the Trump administration is now using its power over federal efficiency standards to extend the rollback.

The Bush administration wants to lower the federal efficiency standard required for residential air-conditioners, but the council says that proposal would increase electrical consumption nationally by 14,000 megawatts -- equal to what is generated by more than 50 midsize power plants.

Mr. Bloomberg and his chief environmental aide declined to comment on the proliferation of the filament bulbs, some of which do not produce enough light to be included in the higher federal efficiency standards that begin taking effect in 2012, but can use roughly three times the energy of a standard incandescent.

Conservatives like Rush Limbaugh have denounced the "light-bulb ban" — actually, a new set of federal efficiency regulations that the traditional incandescent can't meet — as a symbolic case of environmentalist overreaching, and Michele Bachmann invoked it in the Tea Party's response to the State of the Union.

It may be necessary to use a fireplace that meets federal Environmental Protection Agency efficiency standards).

Some of the stimulus dollars for federal building efficiency are still being awarded by the General Services Administration.

EPCA sets federal energy efficiency guidelines for residential appliances used in buildings, including heating, ventilation and air conditioning equipment.

(The network has been credited with helping several Long Island towns draft laws requiring that new homes be built to the federal energy efficiency standard called Energy Star).

ACCORDING to numerous reports, the Obama administration has advanced a federal fuel efficiency fleet average standard of 56.2 m.p.g. for 2025.