Enacted
Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Energy relating to "Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Walk-In Coolers and Walk-In Freezers".
This measure blocks new Department of Energy efficiency standards for commercial walk-in coolers and freezers that were set to take effect for manufacturers. Businesses such as grocery stores, convenience stores, and restaurants will not face the higher upfront equipment costs that typically accompany stricter efficiency mandates. However, businesses and consumers will not gain the long-term energy and utility bill savings the discarded standards were designed to produce.
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Reach25provisional · pending reviewrigor: heuristic llm
What this bill touches.
Greenhouse-gas policy−25Regulation (cross-sector)−30
Who it helps · who it burdens.
Who it helps
- Manufacturers of walk-in coolers and walk-in freezersRelieved from complying with the Department of Energy's updated energy conservation standards published on December 23, 2024, because the resolution voids the rule and denies it any legal force or effect.
Who opposes it
- Department of EnergyThe resolution explicitly disapproves and invalidates the agency's final rule establishing conservation standards for walk-in coolers and freezers, stripping it of all legal force and effect.
The provisions, in plain language.
Void and block the Department of Energy's energy conservation standards for walk-in coolers and walk-in freezers published on December 23, 2024, preventing the rule from having any legal force or effect.