Washington, D.C. NOVEMBER 24, 2025 IMPORTANT TO: HUD CODE MANUFACTURED HOUSING INDUSTRY MEMBERS FROM: MHARR RE: MHARR COMMENTS CALL FOR THE REPEAL AND WITHDRAWAL OF DESTRUCTIVE AND COSTLY DOE MANUFACTURED HOUSING “ENERGY” STANDARDS Attached for your review, information and follow-up is a copy of MHARR’s comments in response to the U.S. Department of […]
AUGUST 11, 2025 TO: MHARR MANUFACTURERS MHARR STATE AFFILIATES MHARR TECHNICAL REVIEW GROUP (TRG) FROM: MHARR RE: MHARR REITERATES CALL FOR WITHDRAWAL OF DOE “ENERGY” STANDARDS AND REGULATIONS FOR MANUFACTURED HOMES As a follow-up to its July 1, 2025 meeting with U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy
Washington, D.C. JULY 2, 2025 TO: MHARR MANUFACTURERS MHARR STATE AFFILIATES MHARR TECHNICAL REVIEW GROUP (TRG) FROM: MHARR RE: DOE ISSUES FINAL RULE DELAYING ENERGY RULE COMPLIANCE DATE FOR “TIER 2” MANUFACTURED HOMES The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a final rule delaying the manufactured housing “energy conservation” standards
APRIL 23, 2025 TO: MHARR MANUFACTURERS MHARR STATE AFFILIATES MHARR TECHNICAL REVIEW GROUP (TRG) FROM: MARK WEISS RE: DOE EXTENDS COMPLIANCE DEADLINE FOR TIER 2 MANUFACTURED HOUSING “ENERGY” STANDARDS The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), in a News Release and draft Federal Register notice issued on April 22, 2025,
RE: BROAD DISCOVERY DENIED IN ENERGY STANDARDS CASE A federal magistrate judge has, for now, denied an effort by the Plaintiffs to obtain wide-ranging discovery from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in the case that was brought in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas to invalidate DOE’s impending high-cost manufactured
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DOE ENERGY RULE LITIGATION – REPORT AND UPDATE MHARR was present in Austin, Texas on April 24, 2024 for a U.S. District Court hearing regarding the pending industry legal challenge to the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) May 2022 manufactured housing energy standards rule. The hearing, before Senior U.S. District Judge David A. Ezra, focused
The statutory Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee (MHCC) following a two-day teleconference meeting, voted on February 16, 2024 – as urged by MHARR — to reject the proposed manufactured housing energy standards enforcement rule published by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in the Federal Register on December 26, 2023. MHARR, in public remarks to the Committee,
DECEMBER 12, 2023 TO: HUD CODE MANUFACTURED HOUSING INDUSTRY MEMBERS AND CONSUMERS FROM: MHARR RE:DOE’S EXTREME ENERGY ENFORCEMENT REGULATIONS WOULD DESTROY AFFORDABLE MANUFACTURED HOMES At a time when the entire nation and governments at all levels are desperately seeking to find ways and means to provide affordable housing for American homebuyers, the U.S Department of
RE: DESPITE DOE DELAY ENERGY STANDARDS REMAINUNACCEPTABLE AS COSTS CONTINUE TO INCREASE The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a “pre-publication” notice of a final rule to extend the compliance date for its previously-announced “energy conservation” standards for manufactured homes. According to the notice, which was issued on May 19, 2023, but has not
APRIL 12, 2023 TO: HUD CODE MANUFACTURED HOUSING INDUSTRY MEMBERS FROM: MHARR RE: WHY INDUSTRY MEMBERS MUST COMMENT ON THE DOE MANUFACTURED HOUSING ENERGY RULE TO DEMAND ITS DELAY AND WITHDRAWAL As promised in its
