(The Hill) — The Biden administration on Friday finalized lightbulb efficiency rules first proposed in late 2022. The final rule will more than double the required efficiency level for the most common ...

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 ...

The legislation is part of Republicans’ broader attack on regulations requiring manufacturers to make appliances more energy efficient. Senate Republicans launched a new effort Tuesday to repeal ...

America's ban on incandescent light bulbs, 16 years in the making, is finally a reality. Well, mostly. A rule issued in 2007, rolled back by the Trump administration, and updated last year by the ...

New standards for light-emitting diode (LED) lightbulbs announced by the Biden administration last week will likely mean measurable savings for American households, but experts say the bulbs last so ...

It wasn’t too long ago that the federal plan to phase out inefficient incandescent lights, technology patented more than 140 years ago by Thomas Edison, was controversial enough to generate fierce ...

Updated on Jan. 2 at 4:55 p.m. ET California can now begin enforcing new minimum standards for light bulb efficiency, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. It's the latest split between the state and the ...