The first light pollution law

By Phil Gyford on 6 June 2002, 6:36 pm | 0 Comments

I've been wondering for some time whether campaigners will make headway in their campaigns to limit human light and sound pollution. The Czech Republic has become the first country to introduce a law forbidding outdoor lighting that spills out above the horizontal plane.

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