The federal Energy Star program, one of the favorite targets of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and other government investigators, is cleaning up its act, according to the most recent GAO report. But in interviews, representatives of industry associations and companies said they were worried about the increasing cost of being an Energy Star partner and that the introduction of a pilot program for an Energy Star most efficient category has the potential to bifurcate the program and devalue the original Energy Star label.
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