NEWS: New Lamp Standard Will Save Consumers $4 Billion Annually

By Natural Resources Defense Council , The Earth's Best Defense - July 02, 2009

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By Lane Burt On Monday, President Obama and Secretary Chu announced a strengthened final rule on lamps that will save consumers $4 billion annually by 2022. This standard would cover the tube fluorescent bulbs (general service fluorescent or GSFL) that we are all familiar with and the flat faced bulbs that fit into recessed can fixtures in many homes (incandescent reflector lamps or IRLs). I have blogged on the importance of this standard before and we asked our online activists to tell ... Read the Full Article
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NEWS: New Lamp Standard Will Save Consumers $4 Billion Annually
  • Parcanman
    They missed something

    The part left out of the article is that even the new "GSFL" bulbs still contain Mercury. The thing they never mention in any article praising these new lamps is that once the bulb dies, you can't legally throw it in the trash, it instead has to be taken to a hazardous waste disposal firm where they will charge you around 5 dollars to get rid of it. Also, read the packaging, if one of these bulbs breaks, you're supposed open the windows and evacuate the area for an hour. Also, if it breaks on a carpet, the ENTIRE carpet in that room is supposed to be removed and taken to a hazardous waste site. Does the energy saved by these new lamps really make the health risks to your family worth it?

    - ParcanmanUS July 2, 2009 5:21PM

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