Personal choice is back in vogue this decade.
Associated Press (1/2/20) reports: "A federal judge on Tuesday allowed California’s updated light bulb efficiency standards to take effect with the new year. U.S. District Judge Kimberly Mueller of Sacramento rejected a petition from the National Electrical Manufacturers Association and the American Lighting Association to temporarily block new minimum efficiency standards for light bulbs that the California Energy Commission adopted in November. The judge said the associations are unlikely to succeed in their lawsuit, which argues that the state rules conflict with federal law. Mueller said state regulators appear to have acted properly under exemptions that gave special privileges to California and Nevada to adopt tougher regulations more quickly than the U.S. Department of Energy. In granting the exemptions, 'Congress recognized, among other things, California’s history of leadership in energy efficiency regulations,' Mueller wrote. President Donald Trump’s administration in September scrapped an Energy Department rule that would have phased out less energy efficient incandescent bulbs nationwide. That decision slowed a yearslong effort by Congress and previous administrations to switch the nation to LED bulbs and other lighting that uses less electricity."
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"If Democrats shut down the coal industry, it would cost hundreds of thousands of jobs, decimate coal communities, and lead to unreliable electricity. Contrast that with the current American Energy Renaissance, with the U.S. now one of the world’s leading energy producers and a net exporter of crude oil and natural gas."
– Matt Mackowiak,
The Washington Times
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