The Washington Post, January 21, 2022, After decades, Biden plans to make mobile homes greener, sparking a fierce debate.
Spurred by a court order, the Biden administration is proposing long-awaited updates to energy-efficiency standards for manufactured homes that it projects will save mobile-home owners thousands of dollars and prevent millions of tons of greenhouse gas emissions from entering the atmosphere in the coming decades. But the new standards, due in May, have also sparked a fierce debate about costs, equity and the future of manufactured housing.
The changes that the Biden administration has put forward include updates to insulation and windows, as well as heating and cooling systems.
