Why Dishwashers Are Quietly Disappearing From American Homes: ‘Federal efficiency standards transformed dishwashers into marathon cleaners’ – But Trump admin’s regulatory ‘rollback offers a rare win for function over dogma’
Gadget Review: When Efficiency Becomes Inconvenience: Federal efficiency standards transformed dishwashers into marathon cleaners. Modern machines take 2.5 to 4 hours per cycle—a far cry from the quick turnarounds families actually need. The Department of Energy’s push for water conservation limits new models to 5 gallons per cycle, with proposals dropping that to 3.2 gallons by 2027. You get cleaner dishes eventually, but “eventually” doesn’t work when kids need their lunch containers ready for tomorrow morning.
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Reason Mag: Donald Trump’s Energy Department Saved Your Appliances: Decades of efficiency mandates have made dishwashers weaker, A.C. units feebler, and appliances more expensive. A new rollback offers a rare win for function over dogma. –
Marc Oestreich: My 1979 brick ranch creaks on into senescence, its heater, air-conditioning, fans, and water heater—bastions of a bygone era of appliance liberty—teetering. Replacing them likely means paying thousands of dollars for lesser-able machines. That’s been the story for decades: as tech leaps forward, appliances regress. Until now. …
Take electric motor mandates—these rules hit everything from your blender to your garage compressor. They aimed to tighten already-strict regulations and expand them to even more motors in everyday appliances. Ostensibly, the goal was to reduce electricity use and emissions. Sounds noble—until you realize what it does to the products we actually use.
These motors skimp on low-end torque, hobbling appliances that need a quick jolt—think A.C. units gasping to start or a blender stalling on ice. They’re slower to respond and less precise. And because they require rare earth metals and heavier materials, they make devices bulkier—your cordless drill suddenly feels like a lead pipe.
Trump Is Poised to Blow Up Obama’s Emissions Framework: But He’ll Have to Defeat These Radical Climate Groups First (Union of Concerned Scientists & Environmental Defense Fund)
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/left-wing-climate-activists-sue-trump-admin-over-proposal-to-revoke-greenhouse-gas-regulation/ By KAMDEN MULDER Excerpt: Liberal climate action groups are suing the Trump administration in the name of radical climate justice over the Environmental Protection Agency’s plans to revoke the Obama-era greenhouse gas policy known as Endangerment Finding. The Endangerment Finding policy, implemented in 2009, declared that six greenhouse gases pose a threat to public welfare […]
Sixty Years of Temperature Averages Declared at UK Met Office Station With Only EIGHT YEARS of Actual Observations
Sixty Years of Temperature Averages Declared at UK Met Office Station With Only EIGHT YEARS of Actual Observations BY CHRIS MORRISON The UK Met Office takes great pride in its public-domain historic station database where 37 selected sites provide average temperature data going back many decades. One of the chosen few is Valley, although it is better […]
‘Surface of Greenland ice sheet gained 399 billion tons of new ice’ since 2024 – 29 billion tons above the 1981-2010 average. Five of last eight years have been above average
The melt season on the Greenland ice sheet is over. The surface of the ice sheet gained 399 billion tons of new ice over the past year, which is 29 billion tons above the 1981-2010 average. Five of last eight years have been above average.https://t.co/Ekp80rlX1s pic.twitter.com/cmgQAsg9Sw — Tony Heller (@TonyClimate) September 2, 2025
In a bad mood? Blame climate change! New study ‘rising global temps create widespread emotional distress’ – Calls for ‘urgent need for climate policies that integrate emotional impacts’ & reduce ‘psychological climate vulnerability’
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/study-links-concerning-trend-shift-005000133.html New study links concerning trend to shift in negative moods worldwide: ‘Alters sentiment on a global scale’ By Kim LaCapria Excerpt: It often seems like nearly everyone on Earth has been in a worse mood in recent years. A new study looked at whether that’s the case, and researchers pinpointed a potential reason, MIT News reported. […]
Morano on Fox talking 20th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina – Activists keep blaming every bad weather event on ‘climate change’
The Bottom Line – Fox Business – Broadcast August 29, 2025 Climatedepot.com executive editor Marc Morano discusses the energy impact from A.I. on the U.S. energy grid and activists blaming Hurricane Katrina on climate change on ‘The Bottom Line.’ US has ‘DROPPED THE BALL’ on this – Climate Depot’s Marc Morano warns Video also here: […]