WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senator Ashley Moody stood in the Oval Office this week alongside President Donald Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin as the president announced the rollback of a set of Biden-era energy restrictions that critics say have driven up costs for businesses and consumers across the country.
The actions — a final rule revising the Biden administration’s 2023 Technology Transitions Rule and a proposed technical fix to the 2024 Emissions Reduction and Reclamation rule — address restrictions on the type of refrigerants American businesses and families are permitted to use. Together, the earlier rules had significantly increased grocery prices and raised the cost of transporting refrigerated goods to grocery stores and restaurants.
Moody arrived at the signing with momentum already behind her. Within her first 100 days in the Senate, she successfully introduced and passed a Congressional Review Act resolution undoing a Biden administration initiative that would have imposed costly performance standards on commercial freezers and refrigerators — a measure she has characterized as part of what she calls the “Green New Scam.”
“I was very pleased to join President Trump at the White House as he signed important actions to roll back costly and burdensome Biden-era Green New Deal regulations,” Moody said. “For years — as both Florida’s Attorney General and now as U.S. Senator — I have fought back against these harmful, ultra-progressive policies that drive up costs, hurt businesses, and undermine economic growth. I’ll keep working to cut unnecessary federal red tape and support our Florida businesses.”
Thursday’s actions extend a pattern Moody established long before arriving in the Senate. As Florida’s Attorney General, she led or joined a series of multistate legal challenges targeting Biden administration environmental and energy regulations — including efforts to block a federal electric vehicle mandate, challenge a rule requiring states to set arbitrary highway emissions targets, secure a court ruling blocking a rule designed to push gas-powered vehicles off the road, and bring a case before the U.S. Supreme Court to shield states from emissions-related lawsuits filed by other states.
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