Current administration seeks to eliminate or privatize the Energy Star program
The federal government’s Energy Star program, which the EPA estimates has saved Americans over $500 billion in energy costs since its inception in 1992, is having its funding targeted as part of the Trump administration’s strategy to decrease government spending. While the Senate appropriations committee voted to keep the agency’s funding to prevent it from being eliminated, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin supports the privatization of the program. Critics of White House efforts to terminate the program as it stands in with the funding it has note the implications it would have not just on consumers, but the real estate and development industries as well.
