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Government Agencies' Inaction on LED Streetlight Health and Environmental Impacts

Despite internal research highlighting significant public health and environmental risks associated with white LED streetlights, government agencies are ignoring their own findings. The use of outdated metrics to justify LED rollouts is leading to increased asthma-related hospitalizations and local insect population crashes. The agencies plan to continue using the current setup for the next 20 years due to accounting cycles.

Science, Earth & Space Sciences, Environmental Science