{"id":27622,"date":"2025-05-12T21:48:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T21:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27622"},"modified":"2025-05-12T22:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T22:25:07","slug":"energy-department-to-repeal-efficiency-rules-for-appliances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27622","title":{"rendered":"Energy Department to Repeal Efficiency Rules for Appliances"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Experts say the moves, which would apply to household appliances, will raise energy costs for consumers.<\/p>\n

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The Energy Department said on Monday that it was preparing to roll back energy and water conservation standards for a long list of electric and gas appliances, targeting 47 regulations that it said<\/a> were \u201cdriving up costs and lowering quality of life for the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n

The moves follow an executive order<\/a> last week from President Trump directing the Energy Department to \u201celiminate restrictive water pressure and efficiency rules that make household appliances less effective and more expensive.\u201d<\/p>\n

But energy-efficiency experts and climate advocates said the Energy Department\u2019s moves would increase the cost of running household appliances like dehumidifiers and portable air-conditioners as well as air compressors used in industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf this attack on consumers succeeds, President Trump would be raising costs dramatically for families as manufacturers dump energy- and water-wasting products into the market,\u201d said Andrew deLaski, executive director of the Appliance Standards Awareness Project, a coalition of environmental and consumer groups, utilities and government agencies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr. deLaski also said that the effort violated an anti-backsliding provision in a decades-old underlying statute, which prohibits the federal government from adopting standards that are more lenient than ones already on the books.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s patently illegal, so hold your horses,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Like many other countries, the United States has for decades adopted standards that govern how much energy or water that appliances \u2014 including lightbulbs, dishwashers, water heaters and washing machines \u2014 can use.<\/p>\n

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Experts say the moves, which would apply to household appliances, will raise energy costs for consumers.The Energy Department said on Monday that it was preparing to roll back energy and water conservation standards for a long list of electric and gas appliances, targeting 47 regulations that it said were \u201cdriving up costs and lowering quality of life for the American people.\u201dThe moves follow an executive order last week from President Trump directing the Energy Department to \u201celiminate restrictive water pressure and efficiency rules that make household appliances less effective and more expensive.\u201dBut energy-efficiency experts and climate advocates said the Energy Department\u2019s moves would increase the cost of running household appliances like dehumidifiers and portable air-conditioners as well as air compressors used in industry.\u201cIf this attack on consumers succeeds, President Trump would be raising costs dramatically for families as manufacturers dump energy- and water-wasting products into the market,\u201d said Andrew deLaski, executive director of the Appliance Standards Awareness Project, a coalition of environmental and consumer groups, utilities and government agencies.Mr. deLaski also said that the effort violated an anti-backsliding provision in a decades-old underlying statute, which prohibits the federal government from adopting standards that are more lenient than ones already on the books.\u201cIt\u2019s patently illegal, so hold your horses,\u201d he said in a statement.Like many other countries, the United States has for decades adopted standards that govern how much energy or water that appliances \u2014 including lightbulbs, dishwashers, water heaters and washing machines \u2014 can use.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27624,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27625,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27622\/revisions\/27625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}