EPA touts manufacturers’ efficiency gains under Energy Star

EPA is touting the energy efficiency gains that hundreds of manufacturers have achieved as part of a voluntary “challenge” under the agency’s Energy Star program, highlighting steps that it says can secure significant greenhouse gas reductions. According to a Nov. 30 press release, EPA says 580 manufacturing plants have met the target in Energy Star’s Challenge for Industry, which aims to reduce plants’ energy intensity by 10 percent within five years. The agency says that, on average, participating plants cut...