Dim Prospects for Repeal of Lightbulb Ban

Last week, Texas lawmakers passed a bill that allows Texas-made incandescent lightbulbs to be sold within the state, sidestepping the effective ban Congress’s Energy Independence and Security Act placed on standard bulbs, which requires producers to sell more energy efficient light sources. But for all other states, under the federal law, general use incandescent lightbulbs will be phased out of the market by 2012.