DOE ARGUES APPLIANCE STANDARDS SCHEDULE SATISFIES CLAIMS IN LAWSUIT

The Department of Energy (DOE) told a federal district judge Feb. 6 that the schedule it released last last month laying out deadlines for setting long-delayed appliance efficiency standards -- as mandated by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 -- satisfies claims in a lawsuit brought by state attorneys general (AGs) and environmentalists. DOE will ask the court to dismiss the challenge, according to sources who attended the hearing in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New...