Strong Start on Energy Efficiency for Biden Administration
The president’s Executive Order on Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis directs agencies to review ...
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NRDC Sues DOE Over Illegal Dishwasher Rule
The Trump administration is continuing its assault on common-sense energy efficiency standards to the last, this time fabricating a new loophole for dishwashers...
Department of Energy’s Test Changes Get Failing Grade
The Department of Energy (DOE) just finalized a “midnight” rule that jeopardizes an important government program that for decades has quietly avoided millions...
NRDC Sues DOE Over Efficiency Standards Process Changes
NRDC sued the U.S. Department of Energy today for once again altering its energy efficiency standards-setting process to make it more difficult to set rigorous ...
Attack on Dishwasher Standards Hurts Consumers, Environment
Under the guise of responding to consumer complaints that today’s energy- and water-efficient dishwashers take too long, the Department of Energy has proposed...
A Light in Dark Places: NRDC Sues to Defend Efficient Bulbs
NRDC and our allies are suing the Department of Energy (DOE) to stop a harmful and unlawful attack on light bulb efficiency standards for many of the most...