Donald Trump Deregulates Showerheads…Again
On Wednesday evening, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that repeals the Biden administration’s December 2021 definition of a showerhead—saying instead that the Oxford English Dictionary’s definition of showerhead will do for the purposes of federal regulations.
“I like to take a nice shower to take care of my beautiful hair. I have to stand under the shower for 15 minutes till it gets wet,” said Trump in the Oval Office Wednesday before signing the order.
The president’s latest order is part of his longrunning pressure campaign against the appliance regulations of the Obama and Biden administrations. But the root of the issue goes back to the presidency of George H. W. Bush.
The 1992 amendments to the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) require that showerheads emit a maximum of 2.5 gallons of water per minute.
To route around that limit, some manufacturers created multiheaded shower units. Each showerhead produced no more than 2.5 gallons of water per minute, but added together, they emitted far more water.
The Obama administration ended this regulatory arbitrage by issuing regulations establishing that the entire shower unit had to comply with the 1992 water flow limits.
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