Greenwire quoted Principal Dan Eisenberg (Washington, DC) in its coverage of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) recently announced 47 changes to regulation affecting fossil fuels, renewables, and efficiency in response to recent executive orders calling for DOE and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to roll back water and energy efficiency standards. Of the 47 actions, around 20 would rescind or eliminate efficiency regulations affecting appliances such as dishwashers, microwaves, and showerheads.

In “DOE Proposes Sweeping Cuts to Efficiency Standards,” Dan said that DOE “is going to be sued by states and various [nongovernmental organizations].” Greenwire noted that “these recent regulatory rollbacks are a more aggressive attack on DOE’s efficiency rules than in Trump’s first term.” In a February 2025 B&D News Alert, Dan predicted increased deregulation and that states and consumer and environmental groups would challenge these actions in court. Dan has also cautioned that DOE’s deregulatory agenda could inadvertently increase the regulatory burden on manufacturers, who may soon face a patchwork of state standards in place of a single federal standard.

Dan represents clients in complex civil environmental litigation and the defense of government enforcement actions and counsels a diverse group of product manufacturers on compliance issues.

B&D’s Consumer Products industry group works with local, U.S., and multinational companies that make, distribute, transport, or sell consumer products in a hyper-competitive and evolving consumer goods market to help them identify, understand, and comply with complex regulatory requirements throughout the product lifecycle.