Final Efficiency Standard ‘Process’ Update Raises Bar For New Rules

The Trump administration has completed a broad overhaul of its “process” for setting appliance energy efficiency standards, significantly raising the bar for officials in future administrations to set new or updated standards that in the past have been a major driver of greenhouse gas emission cuts. The final rule , released by the Department of Energy (DOE) Jan. 15, is part of a more wholesale deregulatory agenda the administration is advancing that seeks to curb the ability of future administrations...