Lighting Associations Drop Lawsuit to Block New California Light Bulb Standards

Two national lighting associations have dropped their lawsuit attempting to thwart California’s updated light bulb efficiency standards, which are identical to national ones rolled back by the Trump administration last year. The California standards, which went into effect Jan. 1 for bulbs filling 260 million sockets in the state, will save Californians billions of dollars on their energy bills and avoid millions of tons of carbon-warming pollution. The National Electrical Manufacturers Association and the American Lighting Association yesterday ended their legal challenge to the California Energy Commission’s Nov. 13 decision to expand its minimum efficiency standards for bulbs.