Americans warned lights are going out this year under new ‘darkness’ law as strict energy-saving measures put into place

MAKE way for a starry-night sky. A new law is hitting excessive lighting this year. Maine is enacting legislation aimed at combatting light pollution. Advocates have argued that even darkness deserves conservation. “Darkness is a natural resource just like land, just like water and it is absolutely deserving of conservation,” Francesca Gundrum, Maine Audubon’s director…

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