CBP Agrees To Limit US Border Light Pollution
There are several ways that lights can be made less polluting. The obvious one is to just turn the brightness down instead of off, or to switch to a “warmer” color that’s less likely to drown out the stars and confuse animals. Aiming lights downward and limiting how much light shines into the sky is another important method. It’s also good to automatically turn the lights off when they’re not needed, using things like timers and motion detectors.
So, it makes very little sense to frame this debate as one of border security versus the environment. Instead, the key is to meet important human needs and goals while minimizing the harms done.People who care about light pollution knew that the federal government could do what it is tasked with doing at the border without destroying the night.
Fortunately, activists were pleasantly surprised to hear that the agency was going to go through the whole environmental process before it switches on any of the stadium bulbs. In a statement shared by Arizona Luminaria, the agency said it would “conduct a review of environmental impacts pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act to install new lights where none exist and/or power on lights where lighting infrastructure had been installed. Through the NEPA process, CBP will evaluate the potential for environmental impacts and obtain feedback from the public and other stakeholders on lighting.
While this doesn’t solve every environmental issue related to the wall , activists are cautiously optimistic about the lights. A thorough review should show what dark sky fans knew all along: that stadium lights have no place in the wild places between Arizona and Sonora. Nobody’s trying to say that there shouldn’t be any lights at all, but CBP seems like it is at least open to the idea of mitigating the impacts of the light it needs.
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