Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Ramma-Slamma BANG! Your Appliances Are Safe!

Fifth Circuit, again.  That is the ONLY Circuit which actually believes all that "Constitution" stuff.

The Biden administration took a major action in 2022 to show it meant business in a war that had quietly raged for years.

 ...The administration’s action related to a battle of a different kind: the war on cleaning appliances.

In January of that year, the Energy Department finalized a rule to restore “efficiency standards” for consumer appliances — residential dishwashers, dryers, and washing machines — that had been rolled back during the Trump administration....

Naturally, there was a lawsuit.

And naturally, the 5th Circuit found......

...The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit rejected the Energy Department’s effort to tighten those standards, determining the regulations were “arbitrary and capricious” and dismissing the government’s claim that the 2020 rules were “invalid.”...

Arbitrary, capricious.....that's also the Biden foreign policy!

This will likely go to SCOTUS--unless their ruling repealing the Chevron deference happens before this gets there.

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