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News > Government / Legal
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Thursday, 3/11/10
Homeowners in the Sheffield area were left in the dark when they awaited light bulb deliveries that never came. The Star reports that postman Paul Hallam, 56, stole packages including DVDs, Baileys liqueur samples and low-energy light bulbs.
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Tuesday, 3/09/10
The Fuerte Tiuana military base in Caracas, Venezuela has a warehouse full of the high-tech tools that will be used to help power the country out of the worst electricity crisis it’s seen in more than 50 years - energy-saving light bulbs. BBC News reports that troops will soon deliver these bulbs across the country.
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Thursday, 2/04/10
Last February, Washington county locals were left in the dark when nearly $40,000 worth of light bulbs were never delivered. As it turns out, the light bulb sales were part of a scheme of the town's former maintenance supervisor Chuck Moody and the bulbs were never intended to reach Ohio.
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Monday, 2/01/10
Wars have been fought over wealth, land and religion. Now, there is a non-violent battle between the U.S. and China to dominate the world's energy efficient industries.
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Thursday, 1/28/10
The Department of Energy hopes that within the next few years incandescent light bulbs and overhead fluorescents will hang in museums - not homes. Through multimillion dollar grants toward developing LED technology, the agency is promoting the energy-saving light bulbs as the up-and-coming lighting solution.
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Tuesday, 1/26/10
The LED market has already been projected to exceed that of semiconductors, with a nearly 3 percent revenue growth estimated for this year, EDN magazine cited from iSuppli. And with Energy Focus' announcement that its research and development team recently received its first grant from NASA - as well as two other LED lighting awards totaling $1.6 million - it's no surprise.
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Wednesday, 1/20/10
As Americans get ready to say goodbye to the incandescent bulb for good, the Department of Energy announced it has awarded more than $37 million in stimulus funds to advance to the LED market, reports the New York Times.
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Wednesday, 1/06/10
Almost two years ago, Rodney Chin and Kern Spencer were arrested by the Cuban government following an investigation into the distribution of nearly four million energy-saving light bulbs. Now, the court case continues as angered Jamaicans want to know why they were left in the dark instead of receiving free bulbs - which were to be a gift from the Cuban government.
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Wednesday, 1/06/10
The British government has set green targets for the lighting industry in light of the recent incandescent light bulb ban. Many light bulb suppliers are finding that junk mail campaigns are the cheapest way to meet the government targets.
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Thursday, 12/31/09
As millions of Americans ring in the new year under the glow of the LED ball in Times Square, all of the European Union will mark the stroke of midnight as the death toll for the incandescent bulb. In accordance with legislation passed in October, the European Union's ban on filament bulbs will take effect at the start of 2010.
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