A familiar household staple — the 60-watt incandescent bulb, along with the 40-watt — is being phased out, and will soon be as obsolete as the rotary dial telephone It’s been 134 years since Thomas ...

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. (Dave ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The Jan. 1 deadline to end production of 60- ...

Say goodbye to the old-style light bulb. On Wednesday, it will become illegal to manufacture or import 60- and 40-watt incandescent bulbs because of federally mandated efficiency standards signed into ...

PARKVILLE, Md. (WJZ) -- Bulb ban. A nationwide phase-out on 40 and 60-watt bulbs starts this week. But many home improvement stores say many customers are confused about where to find replacements. As ...

Better stock up if you like 40- and 60-watt light bulbs The last of the round white light bulbs Americans are used to will start disappearing from store shelves next week as a law limiting their ...

All 60-watt light bulbs are to be removed from the market Thursday as a total EU ban on their sale came into force. In 2008, the EU Parliament announced plans to phase out the manufacture of ...

A third of Americans say they%27ll hoard old light bulbs being phased out On Jan. 1%2C 60-watt and 40-watt incandescents can%27t be made in or imported into U.S. The bulbs will remain on store shelves ...

First the 100-Watt light bulb disappeared from our high streets for good. Now in an even bigger reform, it is the end for the 60-watt bulb which has been outlawed by the European Union. They will stop ...

Oh man, I thought those compact florescent lightbulbs (CFLs) were expensive at around five bucks a pop. Say hello to the $40 LED light bulb — and that’s an introductory price. It’ll apparently cost ...

Fans of the country’s most popular light bulbs - the traditional 40 and 60-watt incandescent bulbs - are being encouraging to start stocking up as on January 1 it will become illegal for American ...