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The ban on incandescent lightbulbs has gone into effect in the U.S. more than a decade after the US first passed a rule prohibiting non-energy efficient lighting. The ban on incandescent lightbulbs has officially gone into effect in the U.S., more than a decade after the federal government first passed a rule prohibiting the non-energy efficient lighting. The issue was first addressed in 2007 with the enactment of the Energy Independence and Security Act, which set maximum power requirements for all general service lightbulbs. Nearly a decade later, former President Donald Trump slowed the rollout on the enforcement of the ban with his "energy independence" policy, aimed at ending the "war on coal" and reversing the Clean Power Plan signed by former President Barack Obama in 2015, which expanded the 2007 rule. In April 2022, the U.S. Department of Energy, under the Biden administration, announced the phaseout of energy-wasting lightbulbs, banning the manufacture and...

Northern light enthusiasts got a surprise mixed in with the green bands of light dancing in the Alaska skies: A light baby blue spiral resembling a galaxy appeared amid the aurora for a few minutes ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Northern light enthusiasts got a surprise mixed in with the green bands of light dancing in the Alaska skies: A light baby blue spiral resembling a galaxy appeared amid the aurora for a few minutes. The cause early Saturday morning was a little more mundane than an alien invasion or the appearance of a portal to the far reaches of the universe. It was simply excess fuel that had been released from a SpaceX rocket that launched from California about three hours before the spiral appeared. Sometimes rockets have fuel that needs to be jettisoned, said space physicist Don Hampton, a research associate professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute. “When they do that at high altitudes, that fuel turns into ice,” he said. “And if it happens to be in...