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Nick Pope
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President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly considering executive action to protect gas furnaces from regulatory overreach, Reuters reported on Tuesday.
According to Reuters, the executive order under consideration would also cover other gas appliances, including heaters, after Democrats and the Biden administration spent years advancing regulations limiting their use. Details of the action being considered are unclear, but the policy could be consistent with a push by Congress to cut funding to prevent state and local governments from pursuing gas appliance phase-out policies.
“This is significant when it takes a White House order to prevent our own government from banning natural gas furnaces and water heaters,” American Gas Association President Karen Hubbard told Reuters in a statement. (RELATED: Official in Biden's crackdown on gas furnaces admits she didn't know what it would take to install an electric furnace)
Interesting little tidbits @EENewsUpdates this morning.
This is surprising, especially since we have all been reliably informed that Democrats are not trying to get rid of gas furnaces. pic.twitter.com/nEyEUWfqhm
— Nick Pope (@realnickpope) December 20, 2024
As of 2020, about 75 million U.S. households used natural gas to power at least one appliance, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Approximately 47 million U.S. households used natural gas for cooking in 2020, up from 39 million households in 2015.
During his tenure, the Biden administration has pushed for energy efficiency rules for stoves, portable generators, pool pump motors, water heaters and more, many of which will gradually steer the market toward electric or energy-efficient models and away from gas-powered versions. Consumer Product Safety Commission Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. suggested in 2023 that gas stoves could be banned after studies linked them to asthma cases in children, although the Energy Department in May 2023 announced in March that the federal government’s ideas on gas stoves were “misinformation.”
Additionally, energy policy experts explained to the Daily Caller News Foundation in December 2023 that the Biden administration is also spending hundreds of millions of dollars to help state and local governments develop building codes that effectively amount to a backdoor effort to phase out gas-fired appliances.
Even as the country moves rightward in the 2024 elections, environmentalists and blue-state officials are still trying to find ways to force the elimination of gas-fired appliances, E&E News reports.
The Trump-Vance transition team did not respond to a request for comment.
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