Alexander Kaufman is a senior reporter at HuffPost, based in New York. He covers energy and climate change. A two-time winner of the SEAL Environmental Journalism Award and a 2024 recipient of the Covering Climate Now Journalism Award, he has filed stories from the Arctic and the Amazon, Europe and East Asia.
President Donald Trump is rolling back efficiency standards on new appliances and cars as part of forthcoming executive actions the new administration said will “empower consumer choice in vehicles, showerheads, toilets, washing machines, lightbulbs and dishwashers.”Monday listing Trump’s top priorities upon his return to office.
Republican attorneys general sued to block the Biden administration from revoking Trump’s appliance rules, and a federal court sent the issue back to the Department of Energy in 2022.Donald Trump took office for his second term as the president of the United States on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025.While Trump’s focus on appliances has long been described as a personal pet peeve, efficiency advocates pointed to positive reviews of new showers and dishwashers.
Republicans routinely railed against higher gas costs, then redirected rage at the Biden administration’s decision to release fuel from the Strategy Petroleum Reserve to bring down the price at the pump. But the American Petroleum Institute, the main oil and gas lobby in the U.S., made reversing fuel-milage rules to make automobiles more efficient a top priority ahead of Trump’s inauguration.Donald Trump has reclaimed the most powerful seat in our nation's government.
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