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Posted on 08/25/2026 11:42:10 AM PDT by JeepersFreepers
A federal appellate court has rejected the Biden Department of Energy’s attempt to bypass public advance notice in instituting regulations on gas stoves in 2024.
Several states, including Texas, had filed comments objecting to the regulations, which the department rejected. The states sought judicial review and won—with a court concluding that the rules should have been dismissed. The matter is being remanded to the department for further proceedings consistent with the court’s opinion.
A Direct Final Rule (DFR)
A federal appellate court has rejected the Biden Department of Energy’s attempt to bypass public advance notice in instituting regulations on gas stoves in 2024.
Several states, including Texas, had filed comments objecting to the regulations, which the department rejected. The states sought judicial review and won—with a court concluding that the rules should have been dismissed. The matter is being remanded to the department for further proceedings consistent with the court’s opinion.
In February 2024, the Department of Energy published a direct final rule (DFR), creating new regulations on home appliances, including gas stoves. The rule prohibited manufacturers from selling new conventional gas cooking tops that consume more than 1,770 thousand British thermal units (kBtu) per year.
By issuing a DFR, the administration avoided giving the public advance notice or the opportunity to comment—while instituting a policy that had been heavily criticized.
Background
In this case, the department initially tried to utilize notice-and-comment rulemaking, but received significant backlash.
It had tried to implement new efficiency standards for consumer cooking appliances and proposed efficiency requirements that would have effectively banned gas stoves and ranges—but was forced to abandon both due to “a veritable avalanche of adverse comments from a variety of industry groups.”
The department then decided to bypass the notice-and-comment process, instead opting for a DFR that set many of the same energy-efficiency requirements it had already attempted.
On the final day of the 110-day comment period, in June 2024, several states filed comments objecting to the DFR. In August, the department filed a confirmation notice, declaring that it found none of the states’ comments provided a reasonable basis for withdrawing the rule.
In October 2024, the states—Texas, Mississippi, Montana, Louisiana, Nebraska, Tennessee, and Utah—filed a petition for review with the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.
The Department of Energy filed a motion to dismiss, arguing that its decision should not be subject to judicial review. It argued that the states should have filed their adverse comments and petition for review at the same time.
The Ruling
On August 11, 2026, the Fifth Circuit released its decision—granting the states’ petition for review and remanding the matter back to the Department of Energy.
The court highlighted two of the states’ points that it found reasonable enough to have required the department to withdraw its DFR under the EPCA.
First, the states had argued that the joint “statement” preceding the DFR failed to include “interested persons that are fairly representative of relevant points of view” as required by law. Second, they highlighted allegations that the DFR’s ban on linear power supplies failed to account for decreased product lifespan and was not economically justified.
“Thus, goes the argument, the Department erred in refusing to withdraw the DFR after these comments provided ‘a reasonable basis’ for doubting the DFR’s legality. We agree and grant the States’ petition,” wrote Judge Andrew Oldham.
The opinion went further, highlighting how the Biden Department of Energy was wrong to utilize a DFR to pass an already unpopular policy that had failed in the notice-and-comment process.
“The previous administration’s gas-stove measures were among its most controversial energy proposals,” wrote Oldham. “The idea that all that controversy could be elided using the DFR—a mechanism designed for consensus rulemaking—is untenable.”
The court also dismissed the department’s motion to dismiss, finding that the states’ petition for review would have been unripe had it been filed before a final decision.
The matter is therefore “REMANDED to the department for further proceedings consistent with this opinion,” reads the opinion.
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The department then decided to bypass the notice-and-comment process, instead opting for a DFR that set many of the same energy-efficiency requirements it had already attempted.
Hopefully, Biden's egregious gas stove regulations will never be be implemented. This court decision is a major win toward that end.
The “Republican” Congress at rest.
Why are ‘regulations’ any more persistent than an executive order? This was Biden’s energy department regulation. Last I looked, Biden doesn’t have an energy department anymore.
The rats try to dictate everything from tires to stoves but the bastards have the nerve to call us the fascists.
The rats try to dictate everything from tires to stoves but the bastards have the nerve to call us the fascists.
You can say that again.
Exactly! And never forget that it wasn't ancient history that the Dims were promoting natural gas as "clean burning". Remember the PSAs suggesting that we move more of our home appliances to natural gas for the environment? Remember when busses and trucks sprang up with a decal on the back saying it's fueled by LNG and CNG? Remember when Obama's EPA (when Biden was VP) forced many power companies to shutter some of their coal pants and replace them with "clean burning" natural gas fueled power plants? (As what happened in my home state.)
These are the same MF'ing Dims who are now trying to ban natural gas! There's no pleasing them! And I think that's probably by design. So no one should ever bother trying to please the Dims.
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“Federal Appellate Court Backs Challenge to Biden’s Gas Stove Regulations”. I wonder if Jill is going to have Joe cremated in a gas stove.
Didn’t the CHEVRON case limit these agencies from implementing new regulations as ‘laws’?
When this came out, my first thoughts were how many Oriental restaurants would cease to exist because stir frying at temperatures way above what to electric burners van deliver, and at a favorable cost.
When this came out, my first thoughts were how many Oriental restaurants would cease to exist because stir frying at temperatures way above what to electric burners van deliver, and at a favorable cost.
The ruling is that government agencies can not make law.
These states neglected their gas line infrastructure and want it to be everyone else's problem.
Damned Freakin Ridiculous
All part of the Democrats A21 Plan to De-industrialize America and return us to the stone age except that this time using fire will be prohibited.
Ditto!!
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