Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The month of August signals many things; the last stretch of summer, back to school and last-minute beach trips. This year, August ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shopping for lightbulbs If you have been in a lighting or hardware store recently, you may have noticed something ...

Not so fast...incandescent bulbs could soon become more efficient thanks to nanotechnology. Mike Kemp/Rubberball/Corbis It was a dark end for a common household object: In 2007, the United States ...

NEWTON - Incandescent lightbulbs are officially banned from being manufactured and sold in the U.S. and some customers and homeowners aren't on board with the change. A 2007 federal ruling to ...

America's ban on incandescent light bulbs, 16 years in the making, is finally a reality. Well, mostly. A rule issued in 2007, rolled back by the Trump administration, and updated last year by the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In non-immigration news today, House Republicans voted yet again to repeal a Bush-era ...

When the ball drops on New Year’s Eve, the year ends -- and so does the ordinary lightbulb. Jan. 1. marks the end of a seven-year effort to outlaw the ordinary lightbulb, thanks to a 2007 law that ...

Lighting manufacturers are pushing back against widespread rumors that the federal government is banning incandescent light bulbs. Rush Limbaugh and some Republicans in Congress are calling for the ...

You don’t have to be an interior designer to have strong opinions about the spaces where you spend your time. And no matter ...

Is the modern incandescent light bulb ready to move from the hallway to the halls of the American History Museum? Politicians seem to think so, but consumers disagree. According to an article in the ...

This week marks not just the start of a new year, but a bright new day for energy conservation. Or maybe it’s the tragic end of an era, with a beloved product now wiped out of existence by a ...