LINCOLN – Attorney General Hilgers joined Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in a 15-state
coalition with the National Association of Home Builders to challenge radical energy codes that will hike housing costs.
The lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of Section 109 of the Cranston-Gonzalez Act. That law permits the Department of Housing
and Development (HUD) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to delegate to two private organizations the authority to set
energy efficiency standards for many homes throughout the Nation.
In other words, the laws governing a large portion of our Nation’s housing are set by private groups that Americans never elected.
This law and corresponding regulation are costly. The agencies concede the standards will cost up to $8,345 for each new home covered
by the regulation. Estimates by industry professionals show the actual costs are far higher—up to $31,000 for each new home.
The agencies project that over 161,000
new units of single-family housing and more than 17,000 new units of multi-family housing will be affected every year.
