- by foxnews
- 01 Mar 2025
The Department of Energy (DOE) announced a new rule in the final days of former President Joe Biden's term to ban non-condensing, natural-gas-fired water heaters by 2029.
"The Democrats want control," Rep. Gary Palmer, R-Ala., who introduced the Congressional Review Act (CRA) in January with Fox News Digital, said ahead of the vote. "Their cold rhetoric leads to cold homes and cold water."
"The American people were tired of being told what to do, what they could buy, what they could wear, what they could use," Palmer said on the House floor. "That's why I introduced this resolution, because we're determined to restore a quality of life in this country that we enjoyed before the Democratic Party took over the White House, and the House and the Senate."
"We believe that we can help American people be able to afford their groceries, afford an automobile, afford their education, and that is why we are doing what we're doing," he added.
"The scary thing is most Americans don't understand what's going on with these, I would describe, radical energy decisions that people are making that are going to have far-reaching impacts on consumers," Windsor, president of Rinnai America Corporation, told FOX Business in an interview.
House Republicans are working to introduce resolutions derailing Biden's climate agenda, specifically overturning regulations on household appliances.
The House passed another CRA on Wednesday to overturn the Biden-era Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Methane Emissions and Waste Reduction Incentive Program.
Hotels in Minneapolis, Minnesota, could implement a booking tax in order to boost tourism. The city saw a "record-breaking" number of hotel guests in summer 2024.
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