March 13, 2018
A California federal judge on Tuesday refused to put on hold his ruling that the U.S. Department of Energy must publish Obama-era energy conservation standards for household and industrial appliances while the agency appeals the ruling to the Ninth Circuit.
February 15, 2018
The U.S. Department of Energy must publish in the Federal Register a set of energy conservation standards for household and industrial appliances that had been finalized during the last months of the Obama administration, a California federal judge said Friday, handing a win to various states and environmental groups in litigation against the federal agency.
January 18, 2018
A California federal judge seemed skeptical that the U.S. Department of Energy could stall its own energy conservation standards for household and industrial appliances, saying at a hearing Thursday that he didn't see why publishing the finalized rules was a discretionary decision, when all it required was "the push of a button."