LINCOLN- Nebraska, Utah, Texas and a dozen other states have teamed up to fight the federal government’s energy efficiency standards that officials there say make affordable housing more expensive. Some resisting the standards have called them “radical.”

The complaint takes issue with the Act’s “Energy Efficiency Standards” section, which imposes regulations when constructing new public housing and single-family and multifamily residential housing. The standards often dictate the types of lighting, ventilation systems, roofs, and heat pumps used in construction.

According to the complaint, that section delegates efficiency standards to two private organizations, the International Code Council and the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers. That should be unconstitutional, the lawsuit alleges.

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