EarthTalk® for the Week of September 5, 2011 - Improving light bulb energy ...
05.09.11
Excessive price EarthTalk: What was the BULB Act pertaining to light bulb energy efficiency that just failed to out of date in the House of Representatives? --- Betsy Edgerton, Columbus, OH
The Preferably Use of Light Bulbs (BULB) Act (H.R. 2417) was a failed attempt in July 2011 by some Republicans in the Home to repeal a 2007 law mandating increased efficiency for light bulbs sold anywhere in the U.S. Sponsors of the bill cited the 2007 bulb expertise requirements—whereby light bulbs must be 25 to 30 percent more efficacious by 2014 and then as much as 60 percent more efficient by 2020—as a key norm of how government overreaches its authority.
“The 2010 elections demonstrated that Americans are fed up with administration intrusion,” said Representative Joe Barton, the Texas Republican who proposed the rescission. “The federal government has crept so deep into our lives that federal agencies now condition what kind of light bulbs the American people are allowed to buy.” It’s ironic that the new standards were put in place by Republican President George W. Bush as part of his Vitality Independence and Security Act of 2007, a sweeping update of the boonies’s energy policy. At the time, the bill, including the provisions about light bulb efficaciousness, enjoyed widespread bi-partisan support.
Source: The Paper Magazine
