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After street lights in an entire county were swapped to LEDs, light pollution got worse

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Phys.org

Publication Date
2021-07-09

"The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry"—this famous paraphrase of Scottish poet Robert Burns sometimes sums up human ingenuity. That is exactly what happened when a county in Washington State decided to replace all of its county-owned streetlights with LEDs, at least partially in an effort to combat light pollution.

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https://phys.org/news/2021-07-street-entire-county-swapped-pollution.html