Legal, Codes & Standards, and Other Filings

On July 10, APGA and co-petitioners submitted its reply brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in our legal challenge of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) final efficiency standard for non-weatherized residential furnaces (the Furnace Rule).

APGA is jointly challenging DOE’s final Furnace Rule with the American Gas Association, National Propane Gas Association, and others. Consolidated with this challenge is also challenges to DOE’s final commercial water heating equipment efficiency standard and the agency’s withdrawal of the “interpretive rule,” which would have ensured consumer access to certain appliance technology. Read more about the legal challenge here.

Through the reply brief, APGA pushed back against the agency’s flawed justifications for the Furnace Rule and others.  The brief continues to argue that noncondensing technology provides a characteristic valued by consumers that must be protected by law.  Accordingly, we continue to ask the Court to vacate the flawed DOE rulemakings.