[WashingtonExaminer] In January of that year, the Energy Department finalized a rule to restore "efficiency standards" for consumer appliances — residential dishwashers, dryers, and washing machines — that had been rolled back during the Trump administration."The Trump rule," Bloomberg Law reported at the time, "had created new short-cycle product classes that weren’t subject to any water or energy conservation standards."
Earlier this month, a federal appeals court filed a ruling that was welcome news to Americans who find it head-scratching that the federal government is aggressively dictating the standards of our cleaning appliances.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit rejected the Energy Department’s effort to tighten those standards, determining the regulations were "arbitrary and capricious" and dismissing the government’s claim that the 2020 rules were "invalid."
The federal government’s effort to save the planet by more aggressively regulating our appliances likely sounds utterly absurd to some and entirely sensible to others. What’s undebatable is that it’s a battle that stretches back decades.
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