Shopping for energy efficient home appliances can be a daunting task. Afterall, for the most part appliances look the same on the outside.
In 1975, Congress passed the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, which set minimum standards of energy efficiency for many major appliances.
And then in 1992 the Environmental Protection Agency designed the Energy Star program in an effort to provide the public with reliable and accurate information on energy efficiency. The program was an attempt to reduce power consumption and greenhouse emissions by power plants.