Florida Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar Questions Dept. of Energy Over Regulations on Ceiling Fan Manufacturers

Below is a press release from Florida Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar.

Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-FL) joined her colleagues on the House Small Business Committee in questioning Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm’s new proposed regulatory standards on ceiling fan manufacturers in Miami.

“Small businesses in Miami are hurting from the Biden Administration’s cruel and unruly regulatory agenda,” said Rep. Salazar. “Biden’s Department of Energy is proposing rules that would put thousands of ceiling fan manufacturers across my District and the country out of business. Make no mistake – Biden’s energy agenda is anti-Miami and anti-America.”

The Department of Energy submitted a proposed rule for comment in June 2023 concerning new energy conservation standards on ceiling fan manufacturers. 

This proposed rule would decrease the maximum estimated energy consumption permissible for large diameter and belt driven ceiling fans. This rule would require numerous small business fan manufacturers to redesign their products and may put between 10 and 30 percent of small business ceiling fan manufacturers out of business.

This bureaucratic rule will cost and impose severe hardship on Miami small business owners who are already seeing their livelihoods driven down by inflation, supply chain issues, and burdensome regulation.

Representative Salazar represents tens of thousands of small businesses in Florida’s 27th District, the majority of which employ between one and four people.

Read the full letter here.