The Trump administration will prevent energy-efficiency standards for light bulbs from going into effect, another regulatory rollback that could increase greenhouse gas emissions and contribute to climate change by lisettevoytko
energy-efficiency standards for light bulbs from going into effect on January 1, 2020, another regulatory rollback that could increase greenhouse gas emissions and contribute to climate change. that the rules, which were expanded during the Obama administration, were “not consistent with the best reading of the statute,” and that they do not “prevent consumers from buying the lamps they desire.
Light bulb manufacturers, including General Electric, opposed the Obama-era rules, claiming that they affect consumer choice and hurt American jobs.Using energy-efficient bulbs in the United States’ approximately 6 billion light sockets could create $14 billion in savings by 2025, according to an estimation by the National Resources Defense Council.Legislation was passed with bipartisan support by Congress in 2007 to phase out inefficient incandescent and halogen bulbs.
of the country’s total household energy usage since 2010, according to Lucas David, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
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