The President rolls back a 20th century law in his fight against the ‘green’ agenda.
President Donald Trump is striking a blow against a law passed when George Herbert Walker Bush was President.
“Water conservation requirements for faucets, showers, bathtubs, and toilets — promulgated by the Department of Energy pursuant to the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (Public Law 102-486) — make bathroom appliances more expensive and less functional. “Efficiency” standards render other American appliances like clothes washers and dishwashers less useful, more breakable, and more expensive to repair. The Federal Government should not impose or enforce regulations that make taxpayers’ lives worse,” Trump said in an executive order Friday.
In a fight against what he calls “unnecessary radical green agenda policies,” Trump is changing policy regarding “water and energy use in dishwashers … water use in faucets … water use in showerheads … water use in water closets … and water use in urinals.”
Trump also calls on “the Secretary of Energy to publish in the Federal Register a notice clarifying the Waiver of Federal Preemption of State regulations covered by the application of ‘Energy Efficiency Program for Consumer Products: Waiver of Federal Preemption of State Regulations Concerning the Water Use or Water Efficiency of Showerheads, Faucets, Water Closets and Urinals.’”
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