Light Bulb Ban

Posts and articles about the banning of incandescent light bulbs which was created by the energy efficiency standards set by H.R. 6 in 1997.

December 14, 2014

Government Subsidies of CFLs and Planned Obsolescence

From the candlepowerforums.com forum: I do wonder about their performance claims, however. If it were so easy to make incandescents hit into…

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December 13, 2014

Federal Budget Bill Will Not Enforce Light Bulb Efficiency Standards

The current version of the bill (H.R.3547 – Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014) will not allocating funds to implement or enforce the law…

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December 3, 2014

eCandescent Kickstarter campaign has launched!

The first incandescent that can legally be sold in the USA after January 1, 2015!  It’s as energy efficient as a CFL…

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February 25, 2014

Loss Of Regular Light Bulbs Costly

From the Editor: If you like your light bulbs, you can’t keep them. (This promise was honest). Almost two-thirds of the public…

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January 17, 2014

Senate spending bill withholds funds for bulb enforcement

Besides funding major programs, the federal spending bill that the Senate passed Thursday contains a provision that has gained little notice yet…

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January 2, 2014

The Incandescent Light Bulb Is Not Dead

Reference: TheVerge.com  By Sean Hollister on January 1, 2014 02:30 pm Email Perhaps you’ve heard the news: the incandescent light bulb is…

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March 16, 2012

Is It Getting Dark Yet?

Note:   Excerpt from “How Many Congressmen Does It Take To Screw In A Light Bulb”http://cei.org/op-eds-articles/how-many-congressmen-does-it-take-screw-light-bulb It’s late in the day, and you…

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March 9, 2012

The Legislation that De-Funded the “Light Bulb Ban”

I have been in a conversation the last couple days with a couple people where we were trying to find the exact…

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February 20, 2012

Industry: Light bulb war a dim idea

Note:  This article was written in December 2011.  I am reprinting it here because some of the insights into the reasoning of…

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January 26, 2012

Missouri Bill deems bulb regulations not valid intrastate.

Missouri local state Rep. Chuck Gatschenberger and others have also, January 19, launched a bill 1146, that “Specifies that the intrastate manufacturing…

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January 18, 2012

Light Bulb Phaseout Worse Than Reported

Posted 01/12/2012 05:15 PM ET | Investors.com Reposted from: sendyourlightbulbstowashington.wordpress.com Environmentalism: As the light bulb phaseout goes into effect, you may be…

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January 11, 2012

Virginia Lawmaker Files Wildly Unconstitutional Bill Seeking To Nullify Federal Lightbulb Standards

By Ian Millhiser | ThinkProgress.org | on Jan 10, 2012 at 9:50 am [Editorial Note:  To state the obvious… Federal law is…

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