appliance bulbs, grow lights, black lights, yellow bug lights and infrared lamps. But in just a couple of weeks it will become illegal for the typical 40 and 60-watt bulbs to be imported or ...

Eddie Ramos, manager at the Rocky's Ace Hardware store in Agawam holds one of the new compact flourescent light bulbs that will be replacing traditional 40-watt light bulbs, at right, this year.

On January 1, 2014, in keeping with a law passed by Congress in 2007, the old familiar tungsten-filament 40- and 60-watt incandescent light bulbs can no longer be manufactured in the U.S., because ...

The third company, General Electric, will sell an LED equivalent to a 40-watt ... common light bulbs. The first products were heavy, with other-worldly metal fins attached to dissipate heat.

Light bulb manufacturers will cease making traditional 40 and 60-watt light bulbs -- the most popular ... The rest is wasted as heat. But the rules have drawn fire from a number of circles ...