Official Summaries

This joint resolution nullifies the final rule issued by the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy titled Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Commercial Refrigerators, Freezers, and Refrigerator-Freezers and published on January 21, 2025. Under the rule, the office adopted new and amended energy conservation standards for commercial refrigeration equipment in order to achieve the maximum improvement in energy efficiency that is technologically feasible and economically justified.

This joint resolution eliminates new, more stringent energy conservation standards for commercial refrigerators, freezers, and refrigerator-freezers. Under the joint resolution, such equipment is no longer required to comply with the new standards.

Specifically, the joint resolution nullifies the rule titled Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Commercial Refrigerators, Freezers, and Refrigerator-Freezers and published by the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy on January 21, 2025. Under the rule, the office adopted new energy conservation standards for commercial refrigeration equipment to achieve the maximum improvement in energy efficiency that is technologically feasible and economically justified. The rule required the equipment to comply with the those standards by January 22, 2029.

Current Full Text

[119th Congress Public Law 9]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



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Public Law 119-9
119th Congress

                            Joint Resolution


 
  Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, 
   United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Office of Energy 
   Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Department of Energy relating to 
    ``Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for 
          Commercial Refrigerators, Freezers, and Refrigerator-
          Freezers''. <<NOTE: May 9, 2025 -  [H.J. Res. 75]>> 

    Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That Congress disapproves the 
rule submitted by the Office of the Office of Energy Efficiency and 
Renewable Energy, Department of Energy relating to ``Energy Conservation 
Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Commercial Refrigerators, 
Freezers, and Refrigerator-Freezers'' (90 Fed. Reg. 7464; published 
January 21, 2025) and such rule shall have no force or effect.

    Approved May 9, 2025.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.J. Res. 75:
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 171 (2025):
            Mar. 26, 27, considered and passed House.
            Apr. 30, May 1, considered and passed Senate.
DAILY COMPILATION OF PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS (2025):
            May 9, Presidential remarks.

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