EPA names 25 cities with the most Energy Star buildings
Los Angeles, long the domain of Hollywood’s movie stars, has the highest number of other stars, too. The city tops the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency‘s (EPA) list of 25 cities with the most buildings that earned EPA’s Energy Star rating in 2008.
To earn an Energy Star rating, a building must use 35 percent less energy and emit 35 percent less greenhouse gases than average buildings, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said in a statement. More than 3,300 commercial buildings and manufacturing plants, such as schools, hospitals, office buildings and auto assembly plants, earned the Energy Star rating in 2008. Those buildings’ energy efficiency saved more than $1 billion in utility bills and more than 7 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions.
San Francisco, Houston, Washington, Dallas-Fort Worth, Chicago, Denver, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Atlanta and Seattle followed Los Angeles in the list’s top 10 Energy Star cities. More information on Energy Star and a list of the buildings in the top 25 cities are available at www.energystar.gov/buildinglist.
