A California law taking effect today would require new light bulbs to produce 45 lumens per watt. That would remove almost all incandescent and halogen bulbs from store shelves. Two industry groups want courts to put a hold on the regulations. (KQEDnews)
The state energy commission says unless it hears from the courts, it will proceed as planned.The backdrop of the updated standards stretch back to the George W. Bush administration. In 2007, President Bush signed into law the, requiring lower energy use from"general service lamps" — loosely defined as general purpose light bulbs.
The act gave California and Nevada the right to implement standards earlier than other states. So, while the rest of the country switched fromincandescents between 2012-14, in California and Nevada made the switch in 2011-13. The act also dictated that the Department of Energy would set energy efficiency standards for"general service" bulbs to take effect January 1, 2020. If they didn't , the standard of 45 lumens per watt would go into effect.
Amid all of that, the Obama administration in 2017 expanded the scope of which bulbs would be considered"general service" to include 3-way incandescent bulbs, among others. The Trump administration rolled those back in September of this year.from the city of New York and the attorneys general of California, New York, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, Nevada, Oregon, Vermont, Washington, and the District of Columbia.
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