If you want a dimmable bulb, buy an LED or incandescent bulb. Bottom line, the nation's switch toward more efficient light bulbs is well under way, and the shift from the 40- and 60-watt bulbs ...

Starting today — New Year’s Day — it will be lights out for the popular 40- and 60-watt incandescent bulbs. ... If you build a better light bulb — at a good price — consumers will come ...

On January 1, 2014, in keeping with a law passed by Congress in 2007, the old familiar tungsten-filament 40- and 60-watt incandescent light bulbs can no longer be manufactured in the U.S., ...

Bulb ban. A nationwide phase-out on 40 and 60-watt light bulbs starts this week. But many home improvement stores say customers are confused about where to find replacements.

Energy-sucking 60-watt incandescent light bulbs are still found in homes around the world, however there a variety of light bulbs out there that last longer, consume less energy, and provide up to ...

On January 1, 2014 manufacturers will stop producing the standard 40 and 60 watt incandescent light bulbs in the United States. The 75 and 100 watt bulbs were discontinued in 2013.

As the government-mandated end to the omnipresent 40- and 60-watt incandescent light bulbs approaches, many consumers remain in the dark about the deadline and the future landscape of lighting.

Noah Horowitz is a senior scientist and director of the Center for Energy Efficiency at the NRDC. This Op-Ed is adapted from a post to the NRDC blog Switchboard. He contributed this article to ...

The banning of 40- and 60-watt incandescent light bulb manufacturing and importation is the final step in America’s participation in a worldwide effort to ban these energy-inefficient light ...

To match the brightness of a 100-watt incandescent bulb, you need an LED bulb that produces around 1,600 lumens. A 60-watt-equivalent bulb has an output of about 800 lumens, and a 40-watt ...

For example, an LED bulb with comparable brightness to a 60-watt incandescent will typically only draw 8 to 12 watts. Imagine you see two LEDs sitting on the shelf at the store, each of them ...

Noah Horowitz is a senior scientist and director of the Center for Energy Efficiency at the NRDC. This Op-Ed is adapted from a post to the NRDC blog Switchboard. He contributed this article to ...