What is ENERGY STAR and does it matter?
U.S. taxpayers have spent millions of dollars to create and run ENERGY STAR. What have we gotten in return?
Johanna
Neumann
Senior Director, Campaign for 100% Renewable Energy, Environment America
On staff: 2001-2003; 2005-present
B.S., Tufts University
Johanna directs strategy and staff for Environment America’s energy campaigns at the local, state and national level. In her prior positions, she led the campaign to ban smoking in all Maryland workplaces, helped stop the construction of a new nuclear reactor on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay and helped build the support necessary to pass the EmPOWER Maryland Act, which set a goal of reducing the state’s per capita electricity use by 15 percent. She also currently serves on the board of Community Action Works. Johanna lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, with her family, where she enjoys growing dahlias, biking and the occasional game of goaltimate.
Posts by Johanna Neumann
Solar strong
Why more and more Americans are choosing to install solar panels with battery storage
Busting myths around tankless water heaters energy efficiency standards
The U.S. Senate voted to eliminate efficiency standards for gas tankless water heaters, increasing energy waste and health-harming pollution.
National appliance energy efficiency savings goal within reach
A final push would allow the Biden administration to reach its pollution reduction goals
Is offshore wind killing whales?
Separating fact from fiction when it comes to offshore wind’s impacts on whales