Lake area residents may soon have the opportunity to purchase a new type of clothes dryer that will help prevent greenhouse emissions and lower utility bills. The environmental protection agency is announcing the first ever energy star label for clothes dryers. They say if all residential dryers sold in the U.S. met these new standards the utility cost savings would grow to more than $1.5 billion dollars each year and prevent more than 22 billion pounds of greenhouse gas emissions annually. The EPA is hoping the new specifications will use about 20 percent less energy than current minimum efficiency standards.
