Long heralded as an energy efficient way to combat global warming, a mounting body of evidence is revealing just how detrimental LED lighting is, in its current and most popular form, to human health and the environment. 

In addition, a growing number of people are being severely impacted by LED lights, reporting eye pain, heightened stress responses, and an over all diminishment of beauty and ambience in outdoor spaces. LEDs can trigger migraines and seizures and contribute to Age-related Macular Degeneration thereby burdening already vulnerable populations.

When used in the wrong color-temperature (i.e., cold and harsh white) as they are in municipal LED street lights from New York to Los Angeles, they mimic daytime light at night and suppress melatonin production and disrupt circadian rhythms exacerbating everything from obesity to depression and even hormone related cancers (breast and prostate). 

Cold, harsh white LED light also has a drastic effect on on animals of all kinds, again, by mimicking daytime light, LEDs reduce nighttime pollinating insects, throw-off migratory birds and confuse fish, turtles and many other species.

Perhaps the most tragic part of this manmade crisis is that it is totally avoidable. LEDs, when done correctly, can produce soft, humane and environmentally friendly light. This comes at a modest increase in energy, but is well worth the livability and sustainability it creates.

This is why we are asking Congress and the EPA to regulate LED lighting by requiring that all LED lights in public and commercial spaces be warm (2,700 Kelvin or less), diffuse (no bare LED diode exposure), and restricted in brightness to the minimum lumens needed for the task with further considerations given to limiting all light at night in order to preserve the natural nighttime environment and the important role it plays in human health and ecosystems everywhere.

For a more in-depth understanding of the issue please see the below links:

https://www.ama-assn.org/ama-adopts-guidance-reduce-harm-high-intensity-street-lights​

http://www.jpost.com/Health-and-Sci-Tech/Health/Study-Nighttime-LED-light-increases-risk-of-cancer​

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/outdoor-light-night-breast-cancer/​

https://gizmodo.com/the-switch-to-outdoor-led-lighting-has-completely-backf-1820652615​

http://www.ledsmagazine.com/articles/2010/11/light-and-human-health-led-risks-highlighted.html​

http://news.rice.edu/2017/08/14/higher-concentrations-of-streetlights-do-not-guarantee-safety-2/​

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0194218​

https://www.darksky.org/lights-at-night-turn-nocturnal-pollinators-off/​

https://www.news-journalonline.com/news/20190506/sea-turtle-nesting-season-begins-on-volusia-flagler-beaches