{"id":689,"date":"2017-03-21T11:57:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T15:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?p=689"},"modified":"2017-03-21T11:58:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T15:58:52","slug":"street-lighting-and-blue-light-information-from-the-department-of-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?p=689","title":{"rendered":"Street Lighting and Blue Light Information from the Department of Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"

News stories generated by the American Medical Association\u2019s (AMA)\u00a0community guidance on street lighting<\/a>\u00a0has elevated\u00a0the topic of LED street lighting and its potential effects on health and the environment in the public\u2019s mind. Discussions of these issues have\u00a0many misperceptions and mischaracterizations of the technical information, and\u00a0the difference between what has and hasn\u2019t been scientifically established is often blurred.<\/p>\n

DOE has assembled a variety of resources on the topic, to provide accurate, in-depth information that clarifies the current state of scientific understanding.<\/p>\n

Source: Street Lighting and Blue Light | Department of Energy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News stories generated by the American Medical Association\u2019s (AMA)\u00a0community guidance on street lighting\u00a0has elevated\u00a0the topic of LED street lighting and its potential effects on health and the environment in the public\u2019s mind. Discussions of these issues have\u00a0many misperceptions and mischaracterizations of the technical information, and\u00a0the difference between what has and hasn\u2019t been scientifically established is … Continue reading Street Lighting and Blue Light Information from the Department of Energy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,3,11],"tags":[30,24,59],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-color","category-health","category-leds","tag-led","tag-led-color","tag-light-and-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gZSw-b7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":738,"url":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?p=738","url_meta":{"origin":689,"position":0},"title":"IES Disagrees With AMA on Night Time Outdoor Lighting","author":"Jason Livingston","date":"June 28, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Last year the AMA issued Policy H-135.927\u00a0Human and Environmental Effects of Light Emitting Diode (LED) Community Lighting, which recommended, among other things, that LED outdoor lighting should have a CCT of 3000 K or below. \u00a0The AMA made this recommendation thinking that lower correlated color temperatures contain less blue light,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Color"","block_context":{"text":"Color","link":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?cat=12"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":692,"url":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?p=692","url_meta":{"origin":689,"position":1},"title":"LRC Responds to AMA on LEDs","author":"Jason Livingston","date":"March 27, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"You may remember that in June of last year the American Medical Association (AMA) released a report called \u201cHuman and Environmental Effects of Light Emitting Diode (LED) Community Lighting.\u201d The report made some noise in the general press because it supported the idea that blue light from blue-pump white LEDs\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Color"","block_context":{"text":"Color","link":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?cat=12"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":223,"url":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?p=223","url_meta":{"origin":689,"position":2},"title":"Circadian Lighting","author":"Jason Livingston","date":"October 4, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"A recent article in The Wall Street Journal discussed the possibilities and benefits of lighting systems that shift color to mimic the changes in daylight. 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