E.P.A. Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program

Summary for you:

The Energy Star program falls under the division of the EPA in charge of climate change and energy efficiency. EPA head Zeldin, under instruction from Trump, is eliminating that whole wing of employees as their function is not something mandated by law to be done.

This is to support the initiative for more powerful toilets, showers, and other appliances, and also to further crush the federal workers unions, who were barred from participating in the discussion of eliminating all these jobs.

Trump had already tried and failed to kill Energy Star in his first term. In more of his stellar business sense, while this program cost $32 million, but saved consumers $40 billion in energy costs.

The program has saved consumers (and businesses) $500 billion over its lifetime. Literally taking yachts out of billionaires hands, and it’s time for this theft to end!! /s

But really it’s being cut because drumpf is attacking anything that helps the environment, the EPA tries to protect the environment, the program is part of the EPA and they’re being gutted. The fact that it’ll extract more $$ from our pockets is an added bonus I’m sure.