It only took 33 years, but last week, President Trump finally repealed a 1992 set of obnoxious Department of Energy regulations on water "conservation." These were the rules related to toilets, showers, dishwashers, and clothes washers that limited water use from these home appliances.
The regs were a constant annoyance to millions of Americans (including us) who complained of toilets that didn't fully flush, showers that dripped out water as if it were expensive champagne coming from the showerhead, and washers that had to run two or three times to clean clothes (hardly a good way to save water).
Trump criticized these regs as "unnecessary radical green agenda policies" that make water appliances "less reliable, more expensive and more breakable."
An earlier Trump order highlighted the lunacy of some of these federal rules:
"The Biden definition of a shower head was a staggering 13,000 words. The Oxford English Dictionary, by contrast, defines "showerhead" in one short sentence."
It's a long overdue win for American consumers, and Congress should follow Trump's recommendation to remove the George H.W. Bush law that started all this mess from the books completely.
