Trump’s Energy Agency Asks SCOTUS to Block Biden’s Furnace Rule

The US Department of Energy asked the US Supreme Court to scrap a lower court’s decision to uphold a Biden-era block on the sale of non-condensing natural gas furnaces and commercial water heaters.

In a brief filed Tuesday, the agency urged justices to grant gas associations’s petition to vacate an opinion which held the energy-efficiency standards meant to reduce gas emissions didn’t violate the Energy Policy and Conservation Act.

The consumer appliance rule and energy-conservation standards “reflect an unduly narrow understanding of what constitutes a regulable ‘performance characteristic,’” under the law, according to the brief filed by the Justice ...