President Donald Trump is pushing to roll back several Biden-era green energy regulations on household appliances. In a Tuesday post on Truth Social, Trump announced that he has directed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Secretary Lee Zeldin to begin reversing water efficiency standards on household appliances, including sinks, dishwashers, showers, and washing machines. The move comes as part of a broader effort by Trump to undo Biden-era green energy policies through a series of executive actions since returning to the White House.
“I am hereby instructing Secretary Lee Zeldin to immediately go back to my Environmental Orders, which were terminated by Crooked Joe Biden, on Water Standards and Flow pertaining to SINKS, SHOWERS, TOILETS, WASHING MACHINES, DISHWASHERS, etc., and to likewise go back to the common sense standards on LIGHTBULBS, that were put in place by the Trump Administration, but terminated by Crooked Joe,” Trump wrote in the Truth Social post. “I look forward to signing these Orders. THANK YOU!!!”
As part of his signature climate agenda, former President Joe Biden implemented a series of green energy regulations, tightening energy efficiency standards on household appliances such as dishwashers, gas stoves, light bulbs, and water heaters.
Since returning to the Oval Office on Jan. 20, the Trump-Vance administration has aggressively moved to dismantle Biden’s energy policies. This includes efforts to repeal the Biden-Harris administration’s stringent fuel economy standards for vehicles and halting funding for its electric vehicle charging network program. On his first day back in office, Trump signed an executive order to “unleash” America’s “affordable and reliable energy and natural resources.”
“In recent years, burdensome and ideologically motivated regulations have impeded the development of these resources, limited the generation of reliable and affordable electricity, reduced job creation, and inflicted high energy costs upon our citizens,” Trump stated in the executive order. “These high energy costs devastate American consumers by driving up the cost of transportation, heating, utilities, farming, and manufacturing, while weakening our national security.”
