Texas CFL Campaign Gets Boost from Energy Bill
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Ramon Alvarez, Environmental Defense, 512.691.3408-w
or 512.788.2246-c
Media Contact: Chris Smith, Environmental Defense, 512.691.3451-w or 512.659.9264-c
(Austin – December 19, 2007) President Bush’s signing of the energy bill today provides further support for the “Lighten Up Texas” campaign launched Nov. 30 by seven big-city Texas mayors encouraging Texans to buy compact fluorescent bulbs (CFLs).
The following statement can be attributed to Ramon Alvarez, Ph.D., scientist in the Texas office of Environmental Defense:
“The energy bill provision related to the phasing out of standard, incandescent light bulbs in favor of more energy-efficient light bulbs is a big step. The writing’s on the wall – incandescent bulbs will soon be a thing of the past. Texans can speed the transition by buying CFLs as stocking stuffers or as part of their 2008 New Year’s resolutions. In addition to reduced utility bills, if every Texas household replaced just one 60-watt incandescent light bulb with a CFL, the global warming pollution reduced would be the same as removing 55,000 cars from the road – a string of cars that, end-to-end, would stretch roughly from Austin to Houston.”
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