Washington, D.C. - infoZine - The nation’s leading manufacturers of
residential central air conditioners, furnaces, and heat pumps today
signed an historic, voluntary agreement with the nation’s leading
energy-efficiency advocacy organizations supporting new federal
standards for those products. For the first time, the agreement calls
for regional efficiency standards to replace a quarter century of
national standards, and it also recommends more stringent building code
provisions for new construction. (continue)