When it comes to illegal possession, fluorescent lights probably don't immediately come to mind. But as states across the country enact bans on compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) and linear fluorescent ...

In December 2022, the President Joe Biden's administration proposed a new rule that, if enacted, would nearly triple the current minimum light bulb efficiency level of 45 lumens per watt to over 120 ...

So, fluorescent lights will become unusable once 2027 arrives, right?”Recently, I have been hearing this question from ...

Not all workplaces are the same, but if you work in an office, some of the common features could be making it harder for you to get your best work done.

Q: The kitchen of my 1987 house has fluorescent tubes in the ceiling, which is dropped down 5½ inches so acrylic panels covering the lights look like part of the ceiling. I hate the quality of the ...

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 ...

The Japanese-style room feels somewhat darkRecently, I felt like the lighting in my Japanese-style room had become a bit dim.

In a common kind of fluorescent tube, a high voltage tears some electrons away from mercury vapor atoms—it's a brief pulse, so that mostly certain electrons and their band of transition energies are ...

Hawaii has joined nine states in banning the sale of fluorescent light bulbs. The legislation took full effect Jan. 1, 2026, under the Hawaii Clean Lighting Standards Act, which passed in 2023. The ...

This is going to be anathema to many people out there, but we have a lot of wiring that goes near, and in many cases, directly across fluorescent lights (long story how it came about). Some goes to a ...