On Feb. 10, The Forum published a letter from Carol Strache that raised the concern that the use of energy efficient compact fluorescent lamps carries a potential environmental threat from the mercury ...

For years, consumers have been urged to switch to CFLs, or compact fluorescent lights, which use about one-quarter of the electricity of incandescent bulbs. But unknown to many, CFLs come with a ...

Researchers have discovered a nanomaterial that can absorb the mercury emitted from a broken compact fluorescent lamp. The researchers have created a mercury-absorbent container lining that can be ...

World leaders have finally decided to restrict the use of mercury in lighting devices and identified a phase-out period for compact fluorescent lamps and linear fluorescent lamps (LFLs) by 2025 and ...

Once broken, a compact fluorescent light bulb continuously releases mercury vapor into the air for weeks to months, and the total amount can exceed safe human exposure levels in a poorly ventilated ...

How many lawmakers does it take to change a light bulb? Apparently, too many. In 2007, Congress passed legislation requiring energy-efficient light bulbs. I’m a big fan of energy efficiency. I’ve been ...

Signatories to the Minamata Convention on Mercury have agreed to ban the manufacture, import and export of straight tube ...

A problem with compact fluorescent (CFL) bulbs is that people are discarding them in the trash with their garbage carrier. I have mentioned this to several people but they don’t seem to want to be ...

Minamata Convention on Mercury was held in Bali, Indonesia from 21st to 26th March 2022. At this conference, it was decided that by 2025, compact fluorescent light bulbs containing mercury, some ...

Fluorescent lightbulbs use less energy than traditional incandescent bulbs, but many contain mercury, a neurotoxin that can accumulate in food sources and ultimately in our own tissues. Removing and ...

Here in Texas, where it is very hot in the summer (granted, we deserve to be in hell for having produced George Bush), some of us have been enthusiastically switching our light bulbs to cooler compact ...