EASTHAMPTON Residents who live in six Easthampton Housing Authority properties will soon decide whether to form a tenants organization to represent them a move that, if successful, would be the first such organization formed since the housing.
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They argue that the department violated federal law, including the Energy Policy Conservation Act, by exempting the newly created class of dishwashers from federal efficiency standards. In addition, such appliances would use more electricity per cycle and thus cost more to run, said the lawsuits.
“As millions of Americans across the country struggle to pay their electricity bills, the Trump administration chooses to dismantle cost-saving energy efficiency standards,” Mr. Becerra said in a statement. “The goal of today’s lawsuit is simple: hold the Department of Energy accountable for its unlawful action and safeguard a program that saves consumers money and decreases pollution to our environment.”
President Donald Trump in front of washing machines at Whirlpool facility in Clyde, Ohio. (Photo: Scott Olson, Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump’s bitter feud with various household appliances has landed his administration in court.
In what I hope will be one of the last stories I must ever write about this cursed topic, environmental, consumer protection, and tenant rights’ groups have banded together to sue the Trump administration over its plan to make dishwashers more inefficient. The new suit filed by Natural Resources Defence Council, Sierra Club, the Consumer Federation of America, and the Massachusetts Union of Public Housing Tenants is asking the federal judiciary to set aside the Trump rule finalised in October to cr