Pssst! Wanna Buy a Cheap, Inefficient, Illegal Lightbulb

onMay 17, 2007 @ 08:51 PDT

Hide your children: the dim bulbs at the Natural Resources Stewardship Project (NRSP) are warning that the federal ban on incandescent lightbulbs could soon give rise to a black market in inefficient lighting.

Imagine, Tim Ball and Tom Harris , decked out in bulky coats and lurking in the alleyways of Toronto and Victoria, offering addicts the opportunty to burn four to six times as much energy with a single lightbulb.

Ah well, when energy industry lobby firms run out of money to pay the NRSP principals to dissemble on climate change, at least the two spinmeisters have an exit strategy.

By Richard Littlemore

us/Developers Eye Louisiana, Texas Coasts for Offshore Carbon Storage

ByPam Radtke / Floodlight

onDec 30, 2024 @ 03:01 PST

Is the Gulf of Mexico the "single best opportunity" to store climate-warming gas — or an existential threat to wildlife and people?

us/Photos: 2024 Was the LNG Export Boom’s Wild Year

ByAshley Braun and Julie Dermansky

onDec 27, 2024 @ 03:00 PST

DeSmog reflects on some of the major moments in U.S. LNG policy, the courts, and protest in a turbulent year for this fossil fuel.

Analysis

A DeSmog Guide to How the World Changed in 2024

ByDeSmog Staff

onDec 26, 2024 @ 03:01 PST

Our editors and reporters weigh in on a year of seismic political events, and what they’re paying close attention to in 2025.

Whistleblower Demands PA’s Gov. Fix ‘Completely Unregulated’ Fracking Wastewater Network

ByJustin Nobel

onDec 23, 2024 @ 03:00 PST

A new lawsuit alleges toxic, radioactive waste leaked into a PA family’s water well, uncovering a regulatory abyss for miles of fracking pipelines in the state.