The Republican-controlled House has passed a bipartisan bill aimed at preventing the Biden administration from continuing to use the federal bureaucracy to ban or severely limit the use of a growing range of home appliances, all in the name of ‘combatting’ climate change.
“I am saddened that we would need such a bill,” said Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.), sponsor of the “Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act,” in a statement following the bill’s passage. “However, as we have experienced under this administration, the Department of Energy has unleashed an avalanche of new regulations for household products, including stoves, dishwashers, washing machines, showers, toilets, water heaters, air conditioners, heat pumps, and furnaces.
“No government bureaucrat should ever scheme to take away Americans’ appliances in the name of a radical environmental agenda, yet that is exactly what we have seen under the Biden Administration. I was proud to lead the House Republican effort to protect our gas stoves, and I am proud to again lead this effort to protect our home appliances,” she added.
The legislation introduces three key requirements: First, any new energy efficiency standards must be cost-effective. Second, the proposal mandates that new standards must result in actual energy or water savings. Lastly, the bill prohibits the federal government from banning any household appliance based on the type of fuel it uses.
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) ripped the administration’s “rush to green agenda,” which she said is “out of touch” with the priorities of everyday Americans.
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John Keefe
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