On Monday, U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) canceled a vote in the committee he chairs, the Natural Resources Committee, on Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Jeff Marootian.
Manchin said, “While I supported Mr. Marootian’s nomination in December, since then the office he’s been nominated to lead has proposed stove efficiency rules that I’ve raised concerns about.”
He added, “While I appreciate that these rules would only apply to new stoves, my view is that it’s part of a broader, administration-wide effort to eliminate fossil fuels…. For that reason, I’m not comfortable moving forward with Mr. Marootian at this time.”
“The EERE office is broadly tasked with decarbonizing the U.S. economy, largely through appliance regulations,” reports Fox News.
“Over the last five months alone, the DOE has unveiled standards to make various appliances, including ovens, clothes washers, refrigerators, air conditioners and dishwashers, more energy-efficient. The agency’s rules targeting stoves, unveiled in February and projected to take 50% of current models off the market, have particularly faced the ire of Manchin, Republicans and consumer groups.”
Now that Marootian’s nomination appears to have tanked, it is unclear what the Biden regime’s next steps are in attacking household appliances or who could be tapped to lead the charge.
One more disgusting action by this anti-American extremist crumb-cruncher regime. Perhaps Biden could lead the way by riding a donkey back and forth to his beach-front vacation home or other mansions in Delaware and Maryland.