Big government and our light bulbs

To the list of things that threaten to end civilization as we know it, add candle-shaped light bulbs. That’s the issue in California’s latest threatened lawsuit, or one of them, against the Trump administration. The Department of Energy is about to finalize a federal rule that would reverse an Obama-era rule that changed the definition of a light bulb. Some states, Washington and Colorado among them, passed laws to preserve the federal energy efficiency standards on specialty bulbs within their borders. California and other states are poised to sue over what critics call a “rollback” and NEMA says is a return to compliance with the law that Congress passed.