You see them in every grocery store and home center - those funny-looking curly compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) that are rapidly replacing the old round bulbs. And pretty soon, the Energy ...

People who want greener homes and lower electricity bills are increasingly switching to compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs), but the spiral-shaped bulbs are turning off some consumers because ...

threat to health and the environment than previously thought. The story details how when one consumer broke a CFL in her home, she was referred to a mercury cleanup company that wanted to charge ...

Compact fluorescent light bulbs, also called CFLs, are growing in popularity. Progress Energy recently started a program at Home Depot stores where you can get a $1 discount on CFLs. CFLs are spiral ...

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FORT WORTH (CBS 11 NEWS) - Everybody knows that one good way to prevent a sunburn is to stay inside where you're safe from the sun's ultraviolet rays, right? Well that may not be true if your home is ...

State regulators have pulled the plug -- temporarily -- on FirstEnergy Corp's controversial program to deliver energy-efficient light bulbs to customers and then charge them. Alan Schriber, chairman ...

As we say hello to 2012, it is time to say goodbye to an old friend, the trusty and dependable 100-watt light bulb. It will disappear into the new, uncomfortably bright white world of the compact ...

Wal-Mart stores, Supercenters and Sam's Clubs across Minnesota will recycle compact fluorescent light bulbs free of charge on Saturday, part of a campaign to encourage consumers to buy, use and then ...

(The Center Square) – One of the nearly 300 new laws that took effect in Illinois New Year’s Day is a ban on compact fluorescent light bulbs. State Rep. Nicholas Smith, D-Chicago, introduced House ...

I get that we have to let incandescents go, but the chilly, shrill light of their replacements doesn’t compare. By Pamela Paul New efficiency rules, more than a decade in the making, have taken effect ...