With the public comment period now closed on DOE’s proposal to rollback light bulb energy efficiency standards, the verdict is in. ASAP has been tracking DOE rulemaking work for about twenty years and we’ve never seen a DOE proposal generate opposition from such a wide range of stakeholders and from so many individual citizens.
DOE was still processing comments and posting them to its website weeks after the May 3 submission deadline. Now the DOE website lists more than 64,000 comments. Virtually all of them oppose the rollback including comments by:
