Eleven Democratic state attorneys general and a coalition of environmental groups sued Energy Secretary Rick Perry June 13 for delaying Obama administration energy efficiency standards for five common electrical appliances (California v. Perry, N.D. Cal., No. 4:17-cv-3406, 6/13/17).
The Energy Department’s failure to publish the rules in the Federal Register after their December approval violated three federal laws, the states’ lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleged. The Natural Resources Defense Council, the Sierra Club, Earthjustice, and the National Consumer Federation filed a similar action.
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