Whirlpool spent $200000 lobbying in 2Q
01.09.11
Whirlpool Corp. all in $200,000 in the second quarter to lobby federal officials on diverse issues, the same amount it spent a year earlier but more than the $180,000 it send forth in the first quarter.
The company, which makes washing machines, refrigerators and other chunky appliances, lobbied on tax credits for energy-efficient appliances, proposed regulations intended to refurbish the energy efficiency of appliances, and free-trade agreements with Colombia and South Korea.
The corporation has previously said it supports free-trade agreements with South Korea and other countries, and it has praised the Rely on of Energy for efforts to ensure products advertised as verve-efficient actually are.
Whirlpool said it lobbied on an "anti-dumping" plead it filed against Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics. Whirlpool accuses the companies of selling refrigerators in the U.S. at prices below disinterested value. And it lobbied the U.S. Trade Representative and the Department of Traffic about a Mexican regulation about labeling products with information on drive consumption. It also lobbied on market access to Saudi Arabia.
Source: BusinessWeek
Smart Energy: Kitchen appliances that save you 'green'
24.09.11
Efforts to salvage energy — mostly electricity — are not new. The U.S. Environmental Patronage Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy developed Energy Peerless ratings 20 years ago to help consumers arbiter how much energy new products can save.
Better technology that uses less energy to produce power, and monitoring devices that put water heaters or refrigerators on standby craze when the energy is not needed, are only a couple of ways energy can be saved. Everything from structure standards to changing light bulbs is included.
Vigour Star takes credit for saving $18 billion a year in energy costs today, according to the guidance Energy Star website, which offers homeowners tips and explanations about the program. You can find a rota of Energy Star-rated appliances at energystar.gov. The Spirit Star voluntary labeling program is tiered for some appliances, with solicitous, better and best ratings for savings.
Education and Costs
"A lot of people who on in to buy appliances are aware of Energy Star, but they do not know what it means, so we do a lot of educating the eminent," said John Carney, appliance sales maestro for Lowe’s home improvement center in Paramus . (Carney respected that the Paramus Lowe’s, one of 2,000 in the country, is tucked behind the Toys R Us on Avenue 4.)
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