LED Streetlights cause more damage to wildlife and environment than HPS

PBS newshour had a newsbrief on the eurozone trying to implement strictly red led street lights for paths and roads to mitigate a measurable amount of damage to insects, bats, wildlife, even plants caused by standard led streetlights and their particularly bad form of light pollution.
They have a neighborhood fitted up with red streetlights as a test as a notable and measurable difference in wildlife activity occurred directly after switching to standard LEDs.
https://dot.ca.gov/-/media/dot-media/programs/research-innovation-system-information/documents/final-reports/ca23-3696-finalreport.pdf

what I find strange is why are we trying to reinvent the wheel?

Turtle habitats, decades ago banned all outdoor lights except for low pressure sodium.

Botanical Light Pollution - Red is the New Blue — LED professional - LED Lighting Technology, Application Magazine

the old research said red was bad for wildlife as well and only lps was extremely low impact.

I’ve seen arguments that lps is inefficient but it’s efficiency is 100% dependent on the ballast type, there were tests of very high efficiency ballasts that brought lps beyond 200wt/lm even beyond typical led efficiency, with the added benefit of faster startup, but the technology was EOL and shelved.

LPS can be made cheaply and with long life, I don’t see why we don’t use what works best and I couldn’t find the groups findings or information that show red as being better.

I’m the type that if they miniaturized lps, I would use it for my garage and outdoor lights