The Biden administration is proposing the restoration of Obama-era rules aimed at increasing efficiency of consumer lightbulbs by including more types of bulbs in regulations. The Energy Department ...

Light bulbs beware: President Barack Obama has announced major changes in lighting standards that advocates say will effectively phase out the least efficient bulbs. "One of the fastest, easiest and ...

In yet another rollback of a Trump-era policy, President Joe Biden’s Department of Energy on Tuesday finalized a new efficiency rule to phase out older, high-energy incandescent light bulbs. The new ...

The federal government’s ban on incandescent light bulbs took effect on Tuesday, more than a decade and a half after such a rule was first proposed intending to promote energy efficiency. A federal ...

Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. The U.S. Department of Energy is cranking up the minimum ...

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The Trump administration announced Friday that it would block a rule designed to phase out older incandescent bulbs and require Americans to use energy-efficient light bulbs. In announcing the move, ...

New efficiency rules, more than a decade in the making, have taken effect, relegating Edison’s glowing orbs to the history books. By Hiroko Tabuchi Hiroko Tabuchi has reported on the climate toll of ...

At the end of July, the incandescent light bulb – patented by Thomas Edison in 1880 and a common fixture in American homes for more than a century – will pass into history. By Aug. 1, commonly used ...