<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/34a46188-502b-4624-bb5d-289fc6761dfa/82350493-5841-4B01-8297-73FD0CBB6388/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blog.puppetgov.com/2009/10/15/california-appears-poised-to-be-first-to-ban-big-screen-tvs-in-your-home/" href="http://blog.puppetgov.com/2009/10/15/california-appears-poised-to-be-first-to-ban-big-screen-tvs-in-your-home/" style="font-size: 11px;">blog.puppetgov.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.puppetgov.com/2009/10/15/california-appears-poised-to-be-first-to-ban-big-screen-tvs-in-your-home/"><EM><A href="http://blog.puppetgov.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/3-4-08-family_watching_tv.jpg" class="highslide"><IMG height="213" width="320" alt="3-4-08-family_watching_tv" src="http://blog.puppetgov.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/3-4-08-family_watching_tv-320x213.jpg" title="3-4-08-family_watching_tv" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-33031" /></A>Editor’s note: First they came for your cigarettes…</EM></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.puppetgov.com/2009/10/15/california-appears-poised-to-be-first-to-ban-big-screen-tvs-in-your-home/">The influential lobby group Consumer Electronics Assn. is fighting what appears to be a losing battle to dissuade California regulators from passing the nation’s first ban on energy-hungry big-screen televisions. <P>On Tuesday, executives and consultants for the Arlington, Va., trade group asked members of the California Energy Commission to instead let consumers use their wallets to decide whether they want to buy the most energy-saving new models of liquid-crystal display and plasma high-definition TVs.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.puppetgov.com/2009/10/15/california-appears-poised-to-be-first-to-ban-big-screen-tvs-in-your-home/">“Voluntary efforts are succeeding without regulations,” said Doug Johnson</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.puppetgov.com/2009/10/15/california-appears-poised-to-be-first-to-ban-big-screen-tvs-in-your-home/"><P>But those pleas didn’t appear to elicit much support from commissioners at a public hearing on the proposed rules that would set maximum energy-consumption standards for televisions to be phased in over two years beginning in January 2011. A vote could come as early as Nov. 4.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.puppetgov.com/2009/10/15/california-appears-poised-to-be-first-to-ban-big-screen-tvs-in-your-home/"><DIV><A href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-bigtvs14-2009oct14,0,4908205.story"><STRONG>ARTICLE CONTINUES…</STRONG></A></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/82350493-5841-4B01-8297-73FD0CBB6388/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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