Climate 21 Project Urges Biden DOE To ‘Rebuild’ Appliance Standards

A group of environmental policy experts including former Obama administration officials is outlining how the Energy Department (DOE) should “rebuild” its energy efficiency standards program, after years of conflict between the Trump DOE and energy conservation backers over the agency’s failure to update roughly two dozen standards. The call surfaces in recommendations to DOE co-authored by former Obama administration climate and energy adviser Jason Bordoff, former DOE Senior Adviser Dan Utech, and Udai Rohatgi, the Obama DOE’s former assistant secretary...