Description: Challenge to energy efficiency standards for commercial refrigeration equipment and related test procedure.
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Zero Zone, Inc. v. United States Department of Energy
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Filing Date Type File Action Taken Summary 08/08/2016 Opinion Download Opinion issued. Seventh Circuit Upheld Department of Energy’s Reliance on Social Cost of Carbon for Efficiency Standards. The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the United States Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) energy efficiency standards for commercial refrigeration equipment, including DOE’s analysis of the standards’ environmental benefits based on the Social Cost of Carbon (SCC). The court concluded that DOE had “acted in a manner worthy of our deference.” The court found that the analytical model upon which the standards were based and DOE’s cost-benefit analysis were supported by substantial evidence and not arbitrary and capricious. The court also said that DOE’s cost-benefit analysis was within its statutory authority. With respect to environmental benefits and the SCC, the court rejected the petitioners’ argument that the Energy Policy and Conservation Act did not permit consideration of environmental factors and also the petitioners’ contention that DOE’s calculation of the SCC was “irredeemably flawed.” The court also rejected arguments that DOE had improperly considered long-term environmental benefits such as carbon reductions but not long-term costs such as worker displacement and that DOE arbitrarily considered global benefits but only national costs. 08/19/2015 Brief Download Reply brief filed for petitioner North American Association of Food Equipment Manufacturers. 08/19/2015 Brief Download Reply brief filed for petitioners Zero Zone, Inc. and Air-Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration Institute. 07/29/2015 Brief Download Amicus brief filed by Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law on behalf of respondents. 07/22/2015 Brief Download Brief filed for respondents. 05/28/2015 Brief Download Brief filed for petitioners Zero Zone, Inc. and Air-Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration Institute. 05/08/2015 Brief Download Brief filed for petitioner North American Association of Food Equipment Manufacturers. 05/27/2014 Petition for Review Download Petition for review filed. -
Zero Zone, Inc. v. United States Department of Energy
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Filing Date Type File Action Taken Summary 07/19/2014 Petition for Review Download Petition for review filed. -
North American Association of Food Equipment Manufacturers v. United States Department of Energy
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Filing Date Type File Action Taken Summary 05/23/2014 Petition for Review Download Petition for review filed.