Sentence examples for tougher efficiency from inspiring English sources

New York State, along with 14 other states and New York City, sued the United States Department of Energy yesterday for failing to comply with a federal law requiring tougher efficiency standards for 22 home appliances.

What would remain would be more modest measures, including tax breaks to encourage alternative sources of fuel like wind and solar power and the imposition of tougher efficiency standards for air-conditioners and home appliances.

A good start would be to oppose a dilution of sensible renewable-energy requirements on utilities as well as the Bush administration's proposed rollback of new, tougher efficiency standards for air-conditioners.

And refiners are increasingly convinced that even after the economy recovers, demand will not grow much in coming years because of the rise of alternative fuel supplies and the advent of tougher efficiency standards for automobiles.

In decades as a senator from Massachusetts, he urged the United States government to tackle global warming, but won only a handful of legislative goals, including tougher efficiency standards for cars.

That's why per capita energy use in California, with tougher efficiency laws, has remained flat, while the rest of the country's has gone up by 50% over the last 35 years.

Andy Burnham, the health secretary, said the "tough efficiency savings" would allow his department to "continue to increase real-terms resources available for patient care year-by-year".

Over the coming five years, we have to live within a Licence Fee that's much smaller than we'd hope for - and tough efficiency targets.

Essentially, a reduced licence fee settlement, together with tough efficiency targets, mean that we need to radically change the way we work to best serve our many different audiences.

Manufacturers and builders would undoubtedly balk at tough efficiency standards.

Polite and affable, with a knack for making science understandable to people who couldn't screw in a lightbulb, Rosenfeld, starting in the 1970s, provided California energy regulators the data they needed to enact some of the toughest efficiency standards in the world.