New US energy standards would reverse Trump’s war on lightbulbs
by Oliver Milman from Environment | The Guardian on (#5SV9P)
Trump's energy department blocked a rule intended to phase out less efficient bulbs. Now Biden plans to move forward, slowly
The Biden administration has moved to reverse the depredations endured by one of the more unusual targets of Donald Trump's culture wars during his time as US president: the humble lightbulb.
The US Department of Energy has put forward a new standard for the energy efficiency of lightbulbs that would essentially banish the era of older, incandescent technology in favor of LED lighting.
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