The EPA is encouraging parents and students to do their back to school shopping at EPA approved, Energy Star labeled retail stores:
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is encouraging students and their parents to support the environment by shopping for back-to-school clothes and supplies at retail stores that have earned the Energy Star label. Energy Star saves Americans energy and helps them protect the environment by avoiding greenhouse gas emissions.
Energy Star labeled stores have features that set them apart from typical stores, such as energy efficient lighting, registers that go to sleep when not in use, and store processes for shutting off equipment during closed hours. Energy Star labeled stores are independently verified to meet strict energy efficiency performance levels set by EPA. Stores that have earned the Energy Star perform in the top 25 percent of stores nationwide, use at least 35 percent less energy and emit at least 35 percent less greenhouse gas emissions than their peers.
I’ll do my shopping at the store that has what I want with the best price, service and is closet to me.
This is wrong on so many levels. Why is the EPA trying to influence the free market or at least what is left of the free mar market. This smells of central planner pushing more socialistic crap on our free market. The government has the power to regulate commerce between the states…they don’t have the power to play favorites or provide an unfair advantage to one company over another. Once again we have a federal agency acting in an unconstitutional manner. When are we going to say enough is enough. Great information and post.
Today they are encouraging people to shop at an EPA approved store. What’s next, we will have to pay a global warming penalty to shop at a non EPA approved store?
These guys are out of control.