On Tuesday, the House approved a bill aimed at making sure that any future energy efficiency rules set by the U.S. Department of Energy are grounded in existing technology and economic feasibility. This update comes from a press release issued by the lawmaker behind the bill.
According to Rep. Debbie Lesko’s office, the bill received bipartisan backing when it was approved.
“I am saddened that we would need such a bill,” Lesko said in the release.
“However, as we have experienced under this administration, the Department of Energy has unleashed an avalanche of new regulations for household products, including stoves, dishwashers, washing machines, showers, toilets, water heaters, air conditioners, heat pumps, and furnaces,” she continued.
“No government bureaucrat should EVER scheme to take away Americans’ appliances in the name of a radical environmental agenda, yet that is exactly what we have seen under the Biden Administration,” she continued.
Washington’s Republican Representative, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, voiced her support for the bill on the House floor, criticizing the Biden administration’s “rush to green agenda” as “out of touch” with the priorities of everyday Americans.
The bill aims to adjust how the DOE develops new rules or changes existing ones for