Govt. routinely misses energy deadlines
As reported in an AP story by H. Josef Hebert in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government has missed all 34 deadlines set by Congress for requiring energy efficiency standards on everything from home appliances to power transformers, government auditors said Thursday.
Two-thirds of the deadlines have yet to be met, although many of them are more than a decade old.
Because of the failures, consumers and corporations stand to pay tens of billions of dollars more for energy than they would have if the deadlines had been met, the Government Accountability Office said.
