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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…