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EPA Kicks Off "Energy Star Change a Light, Change the World" Campaign

Release Date: 10/03/2006
Contact Information: Jessica Emond, (202) 564-4355 / [email protected]

(Washington, D.C. - Oct. 3, 2006) The Environmental Protection Agency is kicking off a two month campaign with a national call to action to save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, one light at a time. If every American household changed a single light bulb to an Energy Star bulb, it would provide enough power to light more than 2.5 million homes, while saving consumers money.

WHO: EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson, Lynn Thomson, General Electric, Kent Knutson, the Home Depot and Mike Colotti, Osram Sylvania.

WHAT: Press event to kickoff a two month "Energy Star Change a Light, Change the World" campaign with a national call to action to save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, one light at a time.

WHEN: Wednesday, Oct., 4 at 12:30 p.m.

WHERE: The National Press Club

1^st Amendment Room
529 14th St. N.W., 13th Floor
Washington, D.C.