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The House of Representatives passed a bill on Dec. 10 to prohibit the secretary of energy and the Department of Energy (DOE) from issuing certain standards surrounding clothes washers.
The Liberty in Laundry Act, introduced by Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.), passed 215–200.
Six Democrats—Reps. Yadira Caraveo (D-Colo.), Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), Don Davis (D-N.C.), Vicente Gonzalez (D-Texas), Mary Peltola (D-Alaska), and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.)—joined all 209 Republicans in voting for the measure.
The bill, which now goes to the Senate, would prohibit the DOE from implementing energy conservation standards for clothes washers if they are “not technologically feasible or economically justified.”…
