A federal court ruled that the Trump administration acted unlawfully in rolling back an energy efficiency rule in favor of one manufacturer of central air conditioners, Johnson Controls International, to the detriment of consumers, the environment, and other manufacturers. In our case filed on behalf of the Natural Resources Defense Council, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York declared the rollback “arbitrary and capricious.”
The Court also admonished the Department of Energy for relying solely on the request of JCI to halt a rule that would prevent JCI and other manufacturers from selling energy-inefficient home air conditioning units without satisfying DOE’s efficiency-testing requirements.
