Similar to the collusion environmentalists conducted with Barack Obama in the White House.
Each time the Department of Energy (DOE) finalized regulations targeting popular home appliances—including stoves, clothes washers, refrigerators, and water heaters—over the last several months, the agency included a similar line in the announcement: The new rules were crafted with the help of recommendations from a "wide range of stakeholders."
According to the DOE, the stakeholders included industry partners and consumer advocacy organizations. A Washington Free Beacon review, however, shows 7 out of the 10 stakeholders whose recommendations DOE consulted are climate activist groups or left-leaning consumer groups. Those groups collectively boast substantial financial backing from grantmaking nonprofits that regularly funnel money to a wide range of progressive social and environmental initiatives.
Among the stakeholders are the Consumer Federation of America, Appliance Standards Awareness Project, American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, Earthjustice, National Consumer Law Center, National Resources Defense Council, and Consumer Reports. Those groups have received millions of dollars from nonprofits such as the Bloomberg Family Foundation, TomKat Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, and Schmidt Family Foundation.
Since the political Left is all about achieving and maintaining power, what the Beacon uncovered makes sense. Biden Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm has never worked a day in her life (especially in the energy sector) and her entire career has centered around politics. Therefore, rather than Granholm draw up the rules, she outsources the task to environmentalist and consumer groups (called stakeholders) funded by billionaires to do it for her.
Granholm claims that the new regulations will save consumers money since they will ensure innovation and lower energy costs for consumers due to more efficient appliances (like gas stoves, dishwashers, and refrigerators). However, the levels of efficiency she seeks to achieve cannot be done using present day technology. Even if it could, the prices of those products would go very high due to complying with the new rules. But wealthy politicians and bureaucrats, like Granholm, their billionaire donors and employees of constituent special interest groups can and they could care less about everyone else.
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