With a January deadline looming on a US law mandating energy efficiency standards for light bulbs, more than a dozen Republican lawmakers are backing efforts to repeal the 2007 law.
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CFLs Contaminate Environment With Toxic Mercury If Not Recycled
The federal Clean Energy Act of 2007 established energy-efficiency standards for light bulbs that dimmed the future for old-fashioned incandescent lamps, which don’t meet those standards.