Groups Clash Over DOE Plan To Ease Procedure For Energy Efficiency Rules

Industry groups are pushing back against plans by the Biden Energy Department (DOE) to roll back a series of required steps officials must take before launching new energy efficiency standards for products, though efficiency advocates argue the Trump-era requirements gummed up the standards-setting process. “The Proposal would elevate the desire for haste over the value of deliberation,” the natural gas supplier Spire, Inc. writes in Sept. 13 comments to DOE on the second of two proposals that would largely reverse...