You see them in every grocery store and home center - those funny-looking curly compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) that are rapidly replacing the old round bulbs. And pretty soon, the Energy ...

Do you remember making the switch from incandescent bulbs to CFLs? Today, switching to LEDs offers even more benefits in ...

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In December 2022, the President Joe Biden's administration proposed a new rule that, if enacted, would nearly triple the current minimum light bulb efficiency level of 45 lumens per watt to over 120 ...

A recent article in the Pioneer Press (“On light-bulb mania, facts and consequences,” by Craig Westover, May 10) overstates the danger posed by mercury in compact fluorescent lights (CFLs). Xcel ...

People who want greener homes and lower electricity bills are increasingly switching to compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs), but the spiral-shaped bulbs are turning off some consumers because ...

Compact fluorescent light bulbs, long touted by environmentalists as a more efficient and longer-lasting alternative to the incandescent bulbs that have lighted homes for more than a century, are ...

Claims that compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) use about two-thirds less energy and last up to 10 times longer than their incandescent cousins have earned them center stage of energy-saving ...

One of the nearly 300 new laws that took effect in Illinois on New Year’s Day is a ban on compact fluorescent light bulbs.

Americans buy 400 million CFL bulbs every year because they last longer and use less electricity. But, the EPA says they contain small amounts of mercury and if the bulb is broken that mercury can ...