Suit Over Conservation Rule for Manufactured Homes Gets Trimmed

The Energy Department was able to get claims alleging that it didn’t consider costs related to testing and compliance in promulgating conservation standards for manufactured housing dismissed from a federal suit.

Most of the claims will advance, but the ones related to DOE’s alleged failure to account for enforcement costs will be dismissed because they’d benefit from additional factual development at the agency level, Judge David A. Ezra of the US District Court for the Western District of Texas said.

The construction of manufactured homes—which can be built in factories before being assembled on-site—has to comply with federal standards ...