The rules, which would lower energy bills and reduce carbon emissions, have failed to win over some Republicans
HOW MANY Republicans does it take to change a lightbulb? Americans may soon find out. On September 4th the Trump administration announced that it was rolling back energy-efficiency standards for household bulbs. The rules, which environmental groups say would lower energy bills and reduce carbon emissions by millions of tonnes per year, were set to come into force in 2020. But the administration says they are “not economically justified” and will limit consumer choice.
The controversy is reminiscent of the lightbulb wars of Barack Obama’s presidency. In 2010 Republican lawmakers became preoccupied with a set of standards, contained in a law known as the Energy Independence and Security Act, aimed at boosting the energy efficiency of American household bulbs by 25%.
Last week’s decision seems to be motivated more by undoing the work of Mr Trump’s predecessor than championing consumer choice. In the final days of Mr Obama’s administration, the energy department eliminated some exemptions in the 2007 law, thereby expanding the efficiency standards to four additional types of bulb. According to anby the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the change would reduce carbon emissions by 540m tonnes over the next ten years and save consumers $120bn over 30.
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