The Biden administration announced Monday that it is spending more than $500 million to help state and local governments adopt green building codes, a strategy that amounts to a backdoor attempt to phase out gas stoves and other fossil fuel-powered appliances, energy experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The Department of Energy announced that it is spending up to $530 million to help states and cities adopt and implement new building codes that are aligned with “zero energy codes,” which are defined as “a building energy policy requiring buildings to demonstrate net zero energy use based on measured building performance outcome,” according to the New Buildings Institute.
The administration touts the initiative as a way to counter climate change while also delivering savings to consumers via energy-efficient appliances, but the funding will actually facilitate an effort to phase out more affordable fossil fuel-powered appliances that has proven toxic at the federal level so far, energy experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“A big reason for federal meddling in state and local building codes is to pursue an agenda that puts climate change activism above the best interests of homeowners,” Ben Lieberman, a senior fellow specializing in environmental policy for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “A big part of this is the effort to use building codes to push people away from abundant and affordable........