What to know about the ban on incandescent lightbulbs
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...