Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, along with President Bill Clinton, will retrofit LA with 140,000 LED streetlights starting this June. The initiative will save the city $48 million, and reduce carbon emissions by 197,000 tons.
New York City’s Department of Transportation has tapped the Office for Visual Interaction for testing LED street lighting around the Big Apple. If successful, all of the city’s 300,000 street lamps could one day be made up of LEDs.
EU energy ministers meeting in Luxembourg gave final approval to an EU-wide ban on incandescent light bulbs. The switch to energy-saving bulbs was approved in advance of a meeting of European heads of state, held next week.