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Solicitor General Asks Supreme Court to Eighty-Six Energy Conservation Rule

The Trump Administration is refusing to defend a D.C. Circuit decision upholding a flawed energy conservation ruie.

Jonathan H. Adler | 4.29.2026 12:21 PM

Last November, a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld a Department of Energy energy efficiency standard for natural gas-powered consumer furnaces and commercial water heaters that effectively banned non-condensing units from the market. The panel decision might have been defensible (and understandable) in a Chevron world,........

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