President Trump’s Energy Department Moves To Kill Green New Scam Appliance Mandates For Good

Here is a rare thing coming out of Washington: a federal agency saying your appliances should actually work and cost less.

On July 2, 2026, President Trump’s Energy Department proposed permanently ending the appliance mandates that made everyday products more expensive and less useful.

Secretary Chris Wright signed a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to rewrite the process the government uses to push these standards down in the first place.

The idea is simple. Let families buy the dryer, the stove, and the fridge that does the job, instead of the one the bureaucrats approve of.

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— U.S. Department of Energy (@ENERGY) July 2, 2026

The Energy Department laid out exactly what is covered, and it reads like a walk through your own house.

Air conditioning units, gas stoves, washing machines, drying machines, water heaters, and refrigerators are all in the mix, along with other equipment Americans rely on every day in kitchens, laundry rooms, basements, and businesses.

The Department says the proposal updates its Process Rule, the internal machinery used to set energy conservation standards for household appliances and equipment before those standards reach the marketplace.

That matters because changing the rulemaking process does more than pause one mandate. It changes the pipeline that future mandates would have used to raise costs, restrict product design, and narrow the choices available in stores.

DOE says the proposed rule will have a 30-day comment window, while a related request for information will accept comments for 60 days.

DOE ties the whole move to President Trump’s executive order titled Unleashing Prosperity through Deregulation. The stated goal is to preserve consumer choice and lower costs, not to lecture you about your carbon footprint.

Wright put it in plain kitchen-table terms.

He said Americans should be able to choose a dryer that dries clothes on the first try, not one that takes multiple cycles to finish a load. Anyone who has run the same towels through a machine twice knows exactly what he means.

Wright said past mandates restricted consumer choice and drove up costs, and that Trump promised to end that nonsense. This is the follow-through.

Trump admin axes 'Green New Scam' appliance rules as Europe bakes in brutal heat

"Energy Secretary Chris Wright says past mandates drove up consumer costs and left households with appliances that didn't work."https://t.co/frF2xloc75

— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) July 2, 2026

For years the green crowd sold these rules as free savings. In the real world they meant weaker water pressure, gas stoves in the crosshairs, and dishwashers that ran twice as long to get half as clean.

None of that was an accident. It was policy, written by people who never had to pay for the appliance they were regulating.

Now there is a public comment window. DOE says it will accept comments on the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for 30 days after it publishes in the Federal Register.

The Department also issued a Request for Information asking for public input on the methods used to develop these standards in the first place. Comments on that request will be accepted for 60 days after publication.

This proposal still has to move through the federal rulemaking process, with the fine print fought out in public comments. The direction is clear, and it points away from Washington and back toward your family.

For once the government is measuring success by whether your dryer dries and your bill drops. That is a standard worth keeping.

This is a Guest Post from our friends over at 100 Percent Fed Up. View the original article here.