I’ve been meaning to blog this for a few days…

An issue which former UNO Dems President Ryan Renner spent a lot of time working on, and which the UNO Dems adopted as a pet project a few years ago seems to have hit the big time in the recent Democratic Congress’ energy bill.

The New York Times covered this story recently:

The new energy bill signed this week makes it official. When 2012 hits, stores can no longer sell the cheap but inefficient incandescent light bulbs that are fixtures in most homes.

And this interesting statistic:

[S]ales of compact fluorescents doubled in 2006 over 2005, and doubled again this year. But … they still account for 15 percent of bulbs in use in homes.

Way to go UNO Dems! Ahead of the curve by several years, we’ve been pushing green-energy, especially in our lightbulbs, for many years now. Pressure from groups like ours are a large part of why the Dems in Congress included this requirement in the new energy legislation. (previous coverage here)