Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Refrigerators were the target of the very first energy efficiency standards for appliances, back in 1974. Justin Sullivan/Getty ...

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FILE - An Energy Star logo is displayed on a box for a freezer Jan. 21, 2025, in Evendale, Ohio. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File) TWINSBURG, Ohio (AP) — When Judy Sautner recently walked into Power ...

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EnergyGuide labels, those familiar yellow-and-black tags you see attached to many major appliances, have been around for more than 40 years. But that doesn’t mean consumers know how to use them to ...

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When Judy Sautner recently walked into Power Appliance, a story in a southeastern suburb of Cleveland, she had one goal in mind: replace her daughter's broken dryer with something that worked and didn ...