Fallon to Hold Hearing on DOE’s New Regulatory Burdens on Americans’ Home Appliances

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs Chairman Pat Fallon (R-Texas) today announced a hearing titled “Cancelling Consumer Choice: Examining the Biden Administration’s Regulatory Assault on Americans’ Home Appliances” to bring transparency to the Department of Energy’s wave of new regulatory burdens on American consumers’ home appliances.

“The Department of Energy’s wave of new standards on everyday appliances from stoves to dishwashers to lightbulbs embodies the Biden Administration’s whole-of-government approach to over-regulate Americans’ day-to-day lives,” said Subcommittee Chairman Fallon. “The Biden Administration is doubling down on policies that will only make American families’ lives more expensive, after already ignoring the skyrocketing inflation it inflicted. The American people deserve to further understand these bizarre, targeted efforts to regulate their appliances out of existence.”

WHAT: Hearing titled “Cancelling Consumer Choice: Examining the Biden Administration’s Regulatory Assault on Americans’ Home Appliances”

DATE: Tuesday,July 18, 2023

TIME: 10:00 AM EST

LOCATION: 2154 Longworth House Office Building

WITNESSES:

• Dr. Geraldine Richmond, Under Secretary for Science and Innovation, Department of Energy

The hearing will be open to the public and press and will be livestreamed online at https://oversight.house.gov/.