Posted by Lane Burt
I blogged yesterday on the release of our negotiated agreement with the lighting industry on standards for street lights and parking lot lights that could save consumers over $5 billion annually. We had a press conference yesterday, attended by members...continued→
Posted by Lane Burt in Solving Global Warming
The Natural Resources Defense Council, along with our fellow efficiency advocates, announced the results of successful negotiations with the lighting industry on standards for street lights and parking lot lights. Standards on outdoor lights are such a no-brainer because these...continued→
Posted by Lane Burt in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
The phase out of incandescent bulbs in the European Union begins next month, so it's time to get prepared for a new round of ridiculous excuses about why folks can't use more efficient lights. Despite having been dealt with repeatedly,...continued→
Posted by Lane Burt in U.S. Law and Policy
There was an excellent article in the NY Times last Sunday, detailing the unexpected rise of super-efficient incandescent light bulbs as a result of the standard in the 2007 energy bill. The article quotes our own lighting and electronics efficiency...continued→
Posted by Lane Burt in Solving Global Warming
Remember last week when I said you should tell the Department of Energy to fix the lamp standard because our Nobel Prize winning Secretary of Energy was listening? Here is what he had to say on pending standards yesterday during...continued→
Posted by Lane Burt in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
I have blogged a couple times about the current rulemaking on lamps (bulbs) being undertaken by the Department of Energy. I won't rehash much, but it is the largest potential energy saver of any appliance standard in the program's history....continued→
Posted by Lane Burt in Curbing Pollution , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
I'm an engineer. I understand quads, kilowatt hours, British Thermal Units, therms, etc. After working here at NRDC in Washington, DC for a while, I have some concept of the importance of a million metric tons of CO2 emissions. And...continued→
Posted by Lane Burt in Solving Global Warming
DOE recently released the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for general service fluorescent (GSFL) and incandescent reflector lamps (IRL). See the actual document here, press release here, and general fact sheet here. GSFLs are the tube shaped fluorescent lights hanging in...continued→
