While fluorescent lights are more environmentally friendly than regular incandescent bulbs, many consumers have shunned them because of the images they conjure of high-school hallways and concerns ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

CBS evening news associate producer Michelle Peltier posts a fact sheet to go along with reporter Daniel Sieberg's Evening News piece on the growing popularity of fluorescent bulbs. (CBS/The Early ...

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The lamp beside me is still on, even at 8.a.m. New Mexico homes often have small windows to keep the heat out, so on grey winter days, the study is otherwise gloomy. Right now, however, it's bathed in ...

Mayfield-- Edward E. Hammer invented the compact fluorescent light bulb and more. The retired Nela Park scientist died July 16 at Kindred in Lyndhurst. He was 80. "Don't tell Ed Hammer he can't do ...

The CFL bulbs, which will raise average monthly residential bills by about 30 cents, are only one part of the program. But the CFLs are as inflammatory for some customers as a debate about politics or ...