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 ...

The Jan. 1 deadline to end production of 60- and 40-watt incandescent light bulbs is here, but most Americans aren’t even aware that their traditional light sources will soon become a rare ...

A familiar household staple — the 60-watt incandescent bulb, along with the 40-watt — is being phased out, and will soon be as obsolete as the rotary dial telephone It’s been 134 years since ...

Beginning Jan. 1, the production of 40- and 60-watt incandescent light bulbs is banned as part of efficiency standards signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2007.

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.

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., ...

Production of 40-watt and 60-watt incandescent light bulbs will be prohibited by law starting Jan. 1, and retailers are preparing for the changeover by informing consumers of their options and ...

More incandescent light bulbs about to disappear As of Jan. 1, companies may no longer make 40 and 60 watt incandescent light bulbs.

GE Lighting has offered this 9-watt LED bulb, replacing the 40-watt incandescent bulb, since 2011. The company has engineered an LED bulb that produces as much light as the old 100-watt ...

The 60- and 40-watt light bulbs are being discontinued because they fail to meet standards set forth in EISA. That legislation set a timetable that requires all screw-in light bulbs to use 25 ...

LED bulbs replaced incandescent bulbs as of 2023, ... We can picture how bright a 100-watt light bulb is compared to a 60w or 40w one. ... and 40-watt-equivalent bulbs are around 6 to 8 watts.