Environmental News: Biden Ends Unsustainable Incandescent Light Bulbs To Help Energy Costs
The Biden administration announced Tuesday that most high-energy incandescent lightbulbs will be off store shelves by July 2023 in an effort to save money for consumers and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
This will apply to light bulbs that produce less than 45 lumens per watt and will raise the energy efficiency standards for general service lamps. The Biden administration said the move will save families $100 every year.
“By raising energy efficiency standards for lightbulbs, we’re putting $3 billion back in the pockets of American consumers and substantially reducing domestic carbon emissions,” Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm said in a statement.
The move, which will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by about 222 million metric tons of carbon dioxide over the next three decades, is aimed to push people to go for more energy-efficient lighting options like LED light bulbs or something like halogen incandescent bulbs and compact fluorescent lamps.
“The lighting industry is already embracing more energy-efficient products, and this measure will accelerate progress to deliver the best products to American consumers and build a better and brighter future,” Granholm added.
LED light bulbs have been praised for their efficiency.
“LEDs have become so inexpensive that there’s no good reason for manufacturers to keep selling 19th-century technology that just isn’t very good at turning electrical energy into light,” Steven Nadel, executive director of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, said in a statement.
Original plans to phase out high-energy incandescent light bulbs were put on pause by former President Donald Trump, who argued that eliminating them was not economically justified.
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