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 […]
‘Web of dark money’ tied to Obama, Dems fuels green opposition to crucial Trump energy plan
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/web-dark-money-tied-obama-dems-fuels-green-opposition-crucial-trump-energy-plan ‘This isn’t about the environment. It’s about political control over America’s energy future and our energy dominance,’ said Jason Isaac By Peter Pinedo , Andrew Mark Miller Fox News An American energy leader is warning that several progressive “green” environmental groups opposing President Donald Trump’s nuclear energy plans are linked to a “web of dark […]
Why Is Every Natural Disaster Being Politicized? ‘There was a time when someone running for president & promising to create conditions conducive to creating better weather would have been laughed off the podium’
https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-every-natural-disaster-being-politicized Why Is Every Natural Disaster Being Politicized? By William L. Anderson Excerpt: Even while the search for missing people in flood-ravaged Texas continues, the politicized invective has come from the Left. Perhaps the most shocking comments came from Dr. Christina B. Propst—a Houston-based pediatrician who mocked the victims and their families because she perceived […]
POLITICO calls it! ‘Trump’s latest climate rollback makes it all but official’ – ‘We’ve lost the culture war on climate’ – Obama advisor: ‘The left strategy on climate needs to be rethought’
POLITICO – June 11, 2025: Excerpt: “Trump’s latest climate rollback makes it all but official: The United States is giving up on trying to stop the planet’s warming. … While the Trump-era GOP’s hardening opposition to climate action has been a major reason for the lack of consensus, one former Democratic adviser said her own party needs to find a message that resonates with broad swaths of the electorate.”
“There’s no way around it: The left strategy on climate needs to be rethought,” said Jody Freeman, who served as counselor for energy and climate change in President Barack Obama’s White House. “We’ve lost the culture war on climate, and we have to figure out a way for it to not be a niche leftist movement.”
Climate Depot’s Marc Morano statement: “Politico is finally calling it! The era of climate bullcrap is entering the dustbin of history. Our long national nightmare has ended.
No longer do U.S. citizens have to listen to politicians drone on about banning cars, meat restrictions, bans on home appliances, ‘carbon passports’ for travel, energy restrictions, clothing made from human hair, eating bugs, lab-grown meat, UN climate pacts, Green New Deals — all to allegedly alter the Earth’s temperature 50 or 100 years from now and save us from an unspecified ‘apocolypse.’
In addition to ‘Trump’s rule-slicing buzzsaw’, the most significant achievement of the Trump administration is how both the President and EPA chief Zeldin have reframed the entire man-made climate narrative and correctly labeled it what it is: A ‘scam’, a cult’, a ‘religion’, and a fraud. Trump was the first GOP presidential nominee since Ronald Reagan to understand how narrative control leads to policy change.
Bravo!”
EPA Looks To Remove Biden-Era Carbon Limits From Coal & Gas-Fired Power-Plants
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/epa-looks-remove-biden-era-carbon-limits-coal-gas-fired-power-plants by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has confirmed that it is drafting a plan to remove the caps on greenhouse gases from coal- and natural gas-fired power plants across the nation. An EPA spokesperson told The Epoch Times that the agency has been reconsidering the Biden administration’s […]
‘Grift, corruption, & fraud’ – Watch: Morano on Real America’s Voice TV on $20B IN EPA FUNDS GOING TO OBAMA/BIDEN-TIED GROUPS
$20B IN EPA FUNDS WENT TO OBAMA/BIDEN-TIED GROUPS @ClimateDepot says this is a grift when it comes to green energy as old as the 90s with Enron and Obama’s first energy stimulus. “This has grift, corruption, and fraud written all over it.”@stinchfield1776 pic.twitter.com/d5RHRXjPJW — Real America's Voice (RAV) (@RealAmVoice) March 5, 2025
‘World’s largest’ solar plant in Calif closing – $1.6 billion Ivanpah casts a shadow on DOE loans – ‘Federal data concluded the plant killed roughly 6,000 birds a year’
Ivanpah solar plant casts a shadow on DOE loans By Christa Marshall, Jason Plautz The concentrating solar array in California is on the path to closure after being hailed as a breakthrough for renewable power. A giant solar plant touted as a symbol of federally financed efforts to fight climate change is on the path to […]
Watch: Loudest Climate Change Preachers Are Biggest CO2 Spewers EVER! – The Jimmy Dore Show
Whether prominent politicians like Elizabeth Warren and Barack Obama or billionaire industrialists like Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg, they all want to deal with the looming climate crisis. And they also don’t want to have to sacrifice personally in any way. And that’s why they fly in private jets, build mega-mansions and, in […]
Former Biden Interior Sec. Sally Jewell ‘Terrified’ of Trump’s Return to White House – Warns Climate Progress Will Be ‘Unraveled’
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-11/trump-return-could-see-climate-progress-unraveled-sally-jewell-says By Zahra Hirji July 11, 2024 at 3:15 PM EDT Sally Jewell, who served as US Interior secretary from 2013 to 2017, said the climate stakes of the election in November “could not be higher” and that she’s “really afraid for the future of our planet” should former President Donald Trump return to the White […]