b'2021 ANNUAL REPORTEnergy - Appliance Efficiency: CFA continued its longtime consumer leadership on appliance efficiency. on advancing, as well seeking the reversal of the harmful energy efficiency rules finalized by the Department of Energy (DOE) under the previous administration. CFA has long advocated that cost-effective energy efficiency standards benefit consumers through lower utility bills while also helping to reduce harmful CO2 emissions. CFA wrote to key Administration officials stressing that the American Jobs Plan will create jobs, lead to a more resilient electricity grid, and modernize power generation through cleaner and lower-cost energy alternatives. CFA joined with other advocates in providing extensive comments to DOE with suggestions on how it should prioritize moving forward with money-saving energy efficiency rulemakings and to quickly reverse the harmful rules finalized under the Trump administration. CFA also participated in filings at DOE dealing with other consumer productsincluding clothes washers, cooking products, dishwashers, portable air conditioning, and heatingand wrote several times to Hill leadership to emphasize the consumer benefits of DOEs appliance standards program. We underscored the consumer perspective at public hearings held by DOE and in comments to the agency on several proceedings affecting consumer products, such as: boilers, furnaces, dryers, lighting, microwave ovens, water heaters, dishwashers, and showerheads.We recruited 24 consumer groups from across the country to sign onto a joint CFA and National Consumer Law Center letter to DOE Secretary Granholm urging the agency to implement the illegally delayed 45 lumens/watt minimum backstop standard for household lighting products, including all the shapes and sizes added by the Obama Administration, as soon as is practicable. Despite the new administration being more receptive to cost-effective energy efficiency standards, CFA continued with litigation challenging several detrimental final rules issued by the DOE, involving weaker standards for lighting products and dishwashers, as well as revisions to the agencys process rule that would make improvements in energy efficiency standards more difficult. We were pleased to support appliance efficiency legislation in Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, New Jersey, Nevada, Rhode Island, and Oregon.We promoted Energy Efficiency Day among our state and local groups, through our America Saves initiative, and via the media.6 Consumer Federation of America'