WASHINGTON,
D.C.— Today, Senator
Ashley Moody’s Congressional Review Act to roll back the Biden-Harris
administration’s Green New Scam initiative—applying costly performance
standards to commercial freezers and refrigerators—passed the U.S. Senate. This
irresponsible and illogical overregulation was on track to create needless
regulations for commercial coolers and freezers, causing high prices, impacting
families and burdening businesses across the country. This marks Senator
Moody’s first piece of legislation passing through Congress and heading to the
President’s desk just after her 100th day in the United States
Senate.
Senator
Ashley Moody said, “The
Biden-Harris administration attempted to force costly and burdensome
regulations onto the American people and their businesses in an effort to
advance their Green New Scam agenda. I am proud to take this fight head
on to ensure that small businesses and American families are not shouldering
the cost of the last administration’s nonsensical regulatory state. Thank you
to my colleagues in the House and Senate for their support. I look forward to
this legislation heading to the president’s desk to become law.”
North
American Association of Food Equipment Manufacturers (NAFEM) said, “As DOE acknowledges in its own
analysis, the increased capital expense costs caused by these standards may
take customers more than 10, 75, and up to 93.9 years in many instances to
match cost reductions achieved through energy-efficiency gains. More expensive
equipment translates into higher costs for consumers. This is simple economics.
As the cost of inputs and doing business increases, a restaurant’s or grocer’s
prices also must increase to make enough of a profit to stay in business.”
BACKGROUND:
Earlier this
Congress, the House passed, and Senator Ashley Moody introduced, a
Congressional Review Act Resolution providing
for congressional disapproval of the rule submitted by the Department of Energy
relating to ‘‘Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for
Commercial Refrigerators, Freezers, and Refrigerator-Freezers’’.
The CRA passed
the Senate by a vote of 52-45 and now heads to President Donald Trump’s desk to
become law.
View Senator
Moody’s full remarks here.
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