DOE Rolls Back Bar On Stricter Efficiency Standards For Gas Appliances

December 23, 2021
The Department of Energy (DOE) is finalizing a rule rolling back a Trump-era restriction on stricter efficiency standards for gas furnaces and water heaters, which are major categories of buildings’ energy use, opening the door for the Biden administration to issue tougher standards. The rule is the latest in a series of DOE measures to undo Trump-era policies that efficiency advocates say impeded needed standards to spur conservation and reduce greenhouse gases across a range of appliance categories. For instance,...


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