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Feds Withdraw New Furnace Efficiency Standards
2013-01-17 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: The federal government has agreed to withdraw new rules that would require consumers in Missouri, Illinois and more than two dozen other northern states to purchase high-efficiency furnaces beginning this spring. The decision is the result of a legal settlement between the Department of Energy and the American Public Gas Association, which argued the new regulations would prove too costly for certain consumers and ultimately steer some of them to heat their homes with other, less-efficient fuels....
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Category:Electronics and Electrical