Attorney General Alan Wilson challenges Biden-era Department of Energy policy

(COLUMBIA, S.C.) – South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson joined a 21-state friend-of-the-court brief challenging a Biden-era Department of Energy rule that imposes costly efficiency standards for consumer furnaces and commercial water heaters.

“Under the guise of ‘expertise,’ the Biden administration forced heavy-handed regulations in the name of woke climate ‘science,’” Attorney General Wilson said. “Americans shouldn’t see their costs manipulated by those with an anti-consumer agenda.”

The amicus brief supports a challenge to a Biden-era Department of Energy rule that imposes costly efficiency standards on consumer furnaces and commercial water heaters. These standards are inconsistent with a previous court ruling that ended Chevron deference.

“The burden of these increased prices largely affects rural, older, and poorer citizens,” Attorney General Wilson said. “Our federal government should be creating an environment for Americans to succeed, not crippling them with unnecessary high costs.”

Attorney General Wilson joined this brief alongside West Virginia, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas.

You can read the brief here.