This story originally appeared on Mother Jones and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
As President Donald Trump sees it, environmental regulations that attempt to improve efficiency and address climate change only make products more expensive and perform worse. He has long blamed efficiency regulations for his frustrations with things like toilets and showerheads. He began his second term in office to “unleash prosperity through deregulation.”
But there’s at least one big way that American companies and households may end up paying more, not less, for