EPA

Panasonic is proud to announce that it has received the 2021 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year – Sustained Excellence Award for its continued leadership and superior contributions to ENERGY STAR from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy. Panasonic has earned this accolade nine years in a row. The ENERGY STAR Read more

Industry Leader Says the Coronavirus is Unknown; Cautions Commercial & Residential Buyers Unscrupulous sellers across the country are falsely claiming both commercial and in-home air purification systems kill Coronavirus. While air purification technologies, including GreenTech Environmental’s proprietary methods, have been used successfully to curb the spread of viruses including SARS and even Ebola, no air Read more

New legislation authorizes program that promotes water-efficient products. The International Code Council (ICC) supports the Water Efficiency Improvement Act of 2017 introduced today by New Mexico Senator Tom Udall and Ohio Senator Rob Portman. This bipartisan legislation authorizes the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) WaterSense program, a voluntary public-private partnership that offers a simple way for consumers Read more

Washington — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a rule to modernize Clean Water Act reporting for municipalities, industries, and other facilities. The final rule will require regulated entities and state and federal regulators to use existing, available information technology to electronically report data required by the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) program Read more

Washington — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a letter sent to vehicle manufacturers notifying them that the agency is adding to its confirmatory testing additional evaluations designed to look for potential defeat devices. View the letter here:  http://www3.epa.gov/otaq/cert/violations.htm Last Friday, EPA sent a Notice of Violation of the Clean Air Act to Volkswagen Read more