{"id":2706,"date":"2010-09-15T10:03:14","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T17:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unrbep.org\/?p=2706"},"modified":"2010-09-15T10:03:14","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T17:03:14","slug":"doe-steps-up-energy-efficiency-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/doe-steps-up-energy-efficiency-enforcement\/","title":{"rendered":"DOE Steps Up Energy Efficiency Enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of what it calls <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energy.gov\/news\/9483.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>\u201cit\u2019s commitment to rigorous enforcement,\u201d <\/strong><\/a>the U.S. Department of Energy is fining <a href=\"http:\/\/gc.energy.gov\/1613.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>27 companies<\/strong><\/a> over $3.5 million for selling products without certifying that they meet energy and water efficiency standards, DOE announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The companies, which include manufacturers, importers and resellers of appliances and plumbing and lighting products, can reduce their fines if they comply with certification requirements within 30 days.<\/p>\n<p>If the companies fail to meet the certification requirements in 30 days, DOE said it will file actions either in the United States District Court or with an Administrative Law Judge to demand payment of the proposed penalties.<\/p>\n<p>Sanyo Electronics has received the largest single fine of over $300,000 for failing to certify a number of refrigerator and freezer models.\u00a0 Other companies that received fines include Daewoo International, DeLonghi America, General Electric Appliances and Stiebel Eltron.<\/p>\n<p>DOE said that its\u2019 \u201caggressive energy efficiency enforcement\u201d has resulted in 75 enforcement investigations and actions \u00a0in the past year, including the 27 penalty cases. These investigations removed 66 products from the market that failed to meet federal energy efficiency standards, and lead to the certification of over 600,000 products, the agency said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read the complete article at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.environmentalleader.com\/2010\/09\/15\/doe-steps-up-energy-efficiency-enforcement\/\" target=\"blank\">Environmental Leader<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of what it calls \u201cit\u2019s commitment to rigorous enforcement,\u201d the U.S. Department of Energy is fining 27 companies over $3.5 million for selling products without certifying that they meet energy and water efficiency standards, DOE announced Monday. The companies, which include manufacturers, importers and resellers of appliances and plumbing and lighting products, can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/doe-steps-up-energy-efficiency-enforcement\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DOE Steps Up Energy Efficiency Enforcement<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2707,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2706\/revisions\/2707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}