Home Appliance Protection and Affordability Act

The bill rewrites how the Department of Energy may set appliance energy conservation standards under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, raising the bar the Secretary must clear before issuing any new or amended standard. The Secretary may not adopt a standard unless it is technologically feasible and economically justified, and a standard counts as economically justified only if the energy and water savings a consumer earns in the first three years exceed any increase in purchase, installation, maintenance, disposal, and replacement costs. A standard must also achieve at least a 0.3 quad reduction in site energy over 30 years or at least a 10 percent cut in the product's energy or water use. In weighing economic justification the Secretary must prioritize consumers, may not count estimates of the social costs or benefits of greenhouse gas emissions, and must run a quantitative economic analysis with a 60-day comment period. Before setting a standard the Secretary must publicly disclose any meeting held in the prior five years with entities that have ties to the People's Republic of China or the Chinese Communist Party, have advocated to limit energy use, and have sought or received federal funds. The bill lets petitioners ask DOE to revoke standards, not just amend them, and requires action within 180 days on a granted revocation petition. It bars any new or amended standard for distribution transformers going forward, and separately confirms the Secretary's authority to set design and performance standards for clothes washers and dishwashers.

At least 29 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 121 quarterly reports filed by 9 lobbying firms and by 23 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.

The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.

5 of them, in no ranking: Sierra Club; Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers; CMS Energy Corp; A.O. Smith Corporation; National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA). Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 24 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.

From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.