Denver Post (29 October 2017)

Light pollution is stealing your view of the stars. National parks want to give it back.

“For the United States, the situation is getting steadily worse,” International Dark-Sky Association program director John Barentine said, citing data showing that 99 percent of Americans live under night skies where pollution from electric lights has reduced darkness by at least 10 percent.
“It is getting worse, even in places where people have light ordinances, because the enforcement is terrible,” Barentine said. “Cities generally don’t have the properly trained employees to substantiate violations of the ordinance.

“We now have second and third generations of people who may think not seeing the Milky Way is just a consequence of living in a city. Does it have to be the case that cities will not have dark night skies? We need an act of Congress. What we really need is a Clean Night Skies Act.”

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