Modify or repeal the law mandating appliance efficiency standards
What the document says“Administration should work with Congress to modify or repeal the law mandating energy efficiency standards.”
The chapter says that before or instead of repeal, the department can give full force to provisions already in the law that limit regulatory overreach and guard against excessively stringent standards. It cites the Trump Administration's approach of prioritizing the few appliance rules likely to save consumers the most energy and ensuring new standards do not compromise product quality or remove features.
What the document actually says“Administration should work with Congress to modify or repeal the law mandating energy efficiency standards.”
Work with Congress on the law behind appliance rules. Change it or repeal it.
A law makes the government set energy rules for appliances. It covers things like washing machines. The book says the law should change or end.
Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Energy relating to “Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Consumer Gas-fired Instantaneous Water Heaters”
2025-05-09 · 139 Stat. 49
Public Law 119-6 disapproves, under the Congressional Review Act, the Energy Department's rule on energy conservation standards for consumer gas-fired instantaneous water heaters, and provides that the rule shall have no force or effect. Three companion laws do the same for walk-in coolers and freezers, for appliance certification and labeling, and for commercial refrigerators. This is Congress and the President acting together against particular standards, which is nearer the chapter's fallback of narrowing which appliance rules proceed than to what it asks for. It does not modify or repeal the law that mandates the standards: the statutory scheme stands, the department keeps its duty to set standards, and the resolutions state no reason.
Congress struck down four energy rules for appliances, and the President signed. That is closer to the chapter's backup plan of trimming such rules. The law that requires the standards is not touched. The agency still has to set them.