Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
"After receiving severe backlash for moving to ban gas stoves, the Biden-Harris administration settled for this rule, which they claim would lower costs for families. Of course, what they don’t tell you is their so-called savings is a mere 21 cents a year."
Pyle said that if Democrats continue to hold power, the rule will be a "mere down payment" on future regulatory overreach that will try to control other mundane aspects of daily life like cooking.
"American consumers [are] fully capable of choosing the appliances that best suit their needs."
The Department of Energy, however, defended the regulation – including against claims that it had waffled on the matter.
A spokesman said the rule posted to the federal register mirrors the regulation devised earlier in the year, and that this final rule has the support of groups like the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers.
Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm said the Department of Energy is "building on decades-long efforts with industry to ensure our appliances work more efficiently and save Americans money."
"When you look past misleading rhetoric, you’ll see that our appliance standards actions are intended for nothing more than promoting innovation and increasing energy efficiency without sacrificing the reliability and performance that Americans have come to expect and rely on."
However, lawmakers who have tried to blunt "bans" or regulations on home appliances and other implements that require fossil fuel power were not convinced of the new rule’s benefits.
In 2023, Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., successfully drafted an amendment to an energy bill that would prohibit Granholm’s department from implementing the original energy standard for cooktops.
"If this draconian rule were carried out, it would eliminate anywhere between 50-95% of today’s gas appliances," Newhouse said at the time.
WHITE HOUSE FINALIZES RULE INCREASING CLEAN ENERGY SUBSIDIES FIVEFOLD IN BID TO SUPPORT GREEN JOBS
Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Washington. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty)
Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J., the ranking member on the House Energy & Commerce Committee, said of 2023 efforts to stop such regulation that "House Republicans are once again putting polluters over people."
Pallone did not respond to a request for comment.
Neither did Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pa., who previously called cost-related concerns about forcing Americans off natural gas a "conspiracy theory cooked up to embroil Congress in culture wars that shed more heat than light on the issues facing our nation."
The Philadelphia lawmaker said in 2023 the rule proposed at the time would save consumers $1.7 billion collectively.
One longtime Democrat did, however, speak out against the original 2023 draft of the rule – as Sen. Joe Manchin, I-W.V., said the feds "have no business telling American families how to cook their dinner."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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