{"id":1238,"date":"2016-03-14T12:33:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T16:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2018-09-09T12:37:47","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T16:37:47","slug":"usa-senate-bill-may-eliminate-mandatory-energy-star-certification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/2016\/03\/14\/usa-senate-bill-may-eliminate-mandatory-energy-star-certification\/","title":{"rendered":"USA \u2013 Senate Bill May Eliminate Mandatory Energy Star Certification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A proposed U.S. Senate Bill proposes to eliminate mandatory third-party certification for Energy Star registration of products. The proposed bipartisan<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpo.gov\/fdsys\/pkg\/CRPT-114srpt138\/html\/CRPT-114srpt138.htm\"> &#8220;Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2015&#8221;<\/a> <a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\"><\/a> is intended to modernize a broad range of energy infrastructure requirements. The change to the Energy Star registration is included in section 1104 of the Bill.<\/p>\n<p>Mandatory third-party certification for Energy Star was implemented several years ago when a broad range of Energy Star registered products were found to be non-conforming.\u00a0 In several publicized cases, the product manufacturer claimed that they misunderstand the requirements, which, in turn, led to non-conforming products and a loss of credibility of the Energy Star program.\u00a0 To rectify this issue, third-party certification relying on standardized testing by an accredited test lab was mandated.<\/p>\n<p>The bill has bipartisan support within the Senate, but this particular provision has opposition from the President&#8217;s office and testing laboratories. It&#8217;s too early to provide an educated guess at the eventual outcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A proposed U.S. Senate Bill proposes to eliminate mandatory third-party certification for Energy Star registration of products. The proposed bipartisan &#8220;Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2015&#8221; is intended to modernize a broad range of energy infrastructure requirements. The change to the Energy Star registration is included in section 1104 of the Bill. Mandatory third-party certification [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nl2016q3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1239,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions\/1239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}