Energy Department Just Issued Five New Regs Trump Could Try To Cancel

"It’s not over, yet, for Obama era rules, regulations and other consequential decisions — which in recent days have included protecting much of the Arctic and Atlantic from offshore drilling and designating new national monuments.

The Department of Energy also has been busy finishing a sweeping Obama era program of energy efficiency standards touching on everything from electric motors to commercial air conditioners. And on Wednesday it unveiled five more of these standards, or regulations, affecting the following products: portable air conditioners, swimming pool pumps, walk-in coolers and freezers, commercial boilers and, perhaps most obscure of all, uninterruptible power supplies, which keep devices like computers running in the case of power failures.

But as Andrew DeLaski, head of the Appliance Standards Awareness Project, notes, there’s a catch — there’s a 45 day waiting period before these standards can be published in the Federal Register, which effectively means that it will be the Trump administration following through on that process."

Chris Mooney reports for the Washington Post December 29, 2016.