The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday gave President Donald Trump’s administration another big win.
The nation’s highest court tossed a Biden administration ruling that regulated efficiency standards for furnaces and water heaters.
In American Gas Association v. Department of Energy, justices on the high court vacated the District of Columbia district court’s ruling, which had upheld the Biden administration’s decision to enforce regulations on non-condensing appliances.
Lawyers for the American Gas Association and other trade groups said the Biden administration’s rules wrongly regulated the sale of commercial water heaters and furnaces.
“The Department may not adopt standards that effectively eliminate from the market products that have distinct ‘performance characteristics,’” Solicitor General John Sauer wrote in a brief to the high court.
The U.S. Supreme Court said that the D.C. district court should think again about its decision to uphold the Biden administration’s choice.
The Trump administration asked the high court to overturn the decision.
Sauer said the Trump administration is thinking about how to get rid of the rules from the Biden administration that are at issue in the case.
“The Department has determined that the rules at issue are factually and legally flawed, and the agency is considering a new rulemaking in which it would correct those errors,” Sauer wrote.
The case will return to the D.C. district court for further decision-making, where judges will likely issue a different ruling in light of the high court’s decision.
This Supreme Court ruling is a critical rebuke to years of unchecked bureaucratic overreach by the Biden administration.
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