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U.S. to drop appliance rules from Trump-era
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TODD C. FRANKEL THE WASHINGTON POST
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WASHINGTON President Donald Trump really got the crowd going last year when he promised them faster dishwashers. Anybody have a new dishwasher? Trump said at the campaign rally in Milwaukee in January 2020, using hyperbole to claim modern, efficient dishwashers needed 10 cycles to clean dishes. I m sorry for that, Trump said. I m sorry for that. It s worthless. They give you so little water.
Trump s administration last year rolled back regulations on dishwashers along with shower heads, clothes washers and dryers. The new rules relaxed limits on water and energy use. Trump said the goal was to give consumers choices.
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By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times - Thursday, May 6, 2021
The Competitive Enterprise Institute filed a federal lawsuit Thursday to force President Biden’s newly created National Climate Task Force to comply with federal open-records laws, accusing the administration of illegally ignoring requests for information.
The free-market think tank filed a request Feb. 17 for documents from the task force’s first meeting on Feb. 11, but has received “no response whatsoever,” even though the Freedom of Information Act requires federal agencies to respond within 20 days.
“The task force is directing climate change policy for this country, but its workings have remained totally private,” said CEI general counsel Sam Kazman in a statement. “The President may have declared climate change to be an existential threat, but that doesn’t make the Task Force an extralegal entity.”
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.”