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Republicans’ Dumbest Idea Yet[?]

Trump and His Know-Nothing Party Declare a $12 Billion War on Energy-Efficient Light Bulbs … and the Earth  By Terry H. Schwadron, DCReport New York Editor

"By 2020, all bulbs were supposed to be LEDs, including bulbs for candelabras, recessed lighting, heavy-duty applications and others added in the latter days of the Obama era. The Trump administration moved last week to eliminate those additions, despite the fact that the 2020 standards would have saved consumers billions of dollars per year and 140 billion kilowatt-hours in energy waste—the equivalent to the output of 45 coal-fired power plants—in 2025, according to the Appliance Standards Awareness Project, which advocates stiffer efficiency programs. Exempting candelabra and other lights from the 2020 standard could cut roughly in half the number of bulbs that would be required to use better technology, research from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory suggests. The Appliance Standards Awareness Project estimates that the Trump rollback will cost consumers an additional $12 billion per year in 2025.

"The [Washington Post] editorial noted that the Trump administration has signaled that it would attempt to roll back the 2020 standards further in coming months."

https://www.dcreport.org/2019/02/22/the-republicans-dumbest-idea-yet/