Supreme Court overturns ruling on Biden-era furnace rules in win for natural gas groups

Just the News ^ | 6/8/26 | Kevin Killough

[CFW]

The Supreme Court on Monday overturned a lower court's ruling, which will allow gas trade associations to continue their legal challenges against Biden-era restrictions on consumer furnaces powered by natural gas.

The efficiency rules finalized during the Biden administration would make non-condensing furnaces, which account for approximately 55% of natural gas furnaces on the market, illegal in 2028, according to the American Gas Association, a trade organization. The rules, they said, would drive up home heating costs.

“Their removal from the market would saddle families with costly renovations or eliminate gas as a home heating option all together,” the industry groups involved in the legal challenge said in a statement.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the rules, and the high court's ruling on Monday sends it back for further consideration, Bloomberg Law reported.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: business; chevrondefense; energy; epa; naturalgas; scotus

[CFW]

No opinion issued. Just the order.

AMERICAN GAS ASSOCIATION, ET AL. V. DEPT. OF ENERGY, ET AL. The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted. The judgment is vacated, and the case is remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit for further consideration in light of the position asserted by the Solicitor General in his brief for the United States filed on April 28, 2026.

[CFW]

Here is some background on the case.

“Broad Coalition of 31 backs AGA Supreme Court challenge to furnace restrictions”

“Twenty-one states and 10 organizations are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review a federal appeals court ruling that upheld a Biden-era rule blocking the sale of non-condensing natural gas furnaces and certain commercial water heaters. The petition, led by the American Gas Association, American Public Gas Association and National Propane Gas Association, asks the Court to overturn a 2-1 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that if permitted to stand would remove efficient and affordable products used in millions of homes and businesses from the market.

Non-condensing furnaces, which would be illegal to manufacture in 2028 under the Biden-era rule, account for approximately 55% of the market for natural gas furnaces in the United States. In many homes, they cannot be replaced with condensing models without significant structural modifications, requiring costly renovations or eliminating natural gas as a heating option.”

https://www.aga.org/news/news-releases/broad-coalition-of-31-backs-aga-supreme-court-challenge-to-furnace-restrictions/

[Deaf Smith]

This month of June marks two years since SCOTUS knocked down the Chevron Deference, that had allowed government agencies to make ‘rules’ which were held as law.

[gibsonguy]

No opinion issued. Just the order.”

They should have killed this outrages rule. So homeowners and furnace makers are still in limbo because of that scumbag Biden.

[CFW]

Like most of the Biden-error EPA rules, the regulation was nonsensical.

[Tell It Right]

This month of June marks two years since SCOTUS knocked down the Chevron Deference, that had allowed government agencies to make ‘rules’ which were held as law.

Whenever Justice Clarence Thomas passes there should be statues.

[Deaf Smith]

Did any of the twenty-one state AG’s list Chevron Deference in their briefs to SCOTUS?

I did not read such in the Bloomberg Law link.

[Forgiven_Sinner]

Further, under the 10th Amendment, this is not a delegated power of the Federal government and must be under the states control.

[USCG SimTech]

At current use and current expansion of rate of use, only the currently tapped natural gas wells can provide ~53 years of extremely clean fuel.

Then there’s that whole new wells and yet-to-be-proven but discovered pockets thing. Impossible to calculate but expected to be at least 10X.

[Steely Tom]

We are the carbon they want to eliminate.

[HKMk23]

I swear, all the Marxist greeniacs driving these regulators are going to have to end, uuhhh, “strenuously re-educated” or entirely innocent Americans are going to start showing up a the morgue unexpectedly.

I put the very FINEST of points on this, and HEAR ME WELL:
General Patton saw the long game, and got no hearing.
He wanted to drive the 3rd Army to Moscow.
We should’ve let him.
We absolutely, positively should’ve.
Hiroshima would have been enough the silence Japan had we given them longer to absorb the magnitude of that event.
The munition we sent to Nagasaki ought to have been sent to Stalin.
Instead, we handed the entirety of Eastern Europe to Communists who kept them in stultifying misery for nearly 50 years.
Some fekkin friends WE turned out to be.
What great champions of freedom.
About broke our own arm patting ourselves on the back.
And then, on the home front, we couldn’t, and still refuse to, hold the line against the ravages of the Marxist orcs in our streets and institutions.

TELL ME AGAIN THE FAIRY TALE OF AMERICAN VICTORY IN WWII.

WE left EVERYTHING that REALLY mattered sitting there on the table for the Communists to take, and they DID.

AND THEY STILL ARE.
AND NOBODY IS STOPPING THEM.

[Shady]

It’s Soetoro and the #JihadJunta.

[oil_dude]

This is a win for every American who is tired of stupid democrat ideas becoming law!

[George from New England]

Give us our r22 back

[Zathras]

Low flow toilets filled landfills with non conforming toilets and didn’t save a drop of water.
Imagine what will happen if water heaters convert to electricity?
My home doesn’t even have an outlet near the water heater, let alone one with the high current required.