Nine federal departments explained how to watch the eclipse safely

By Pete Kasperowicz

Published August 22, 2017 7:41pm ET

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Nine federal departments explained how to watch the eclipse safely — Cheyanne Farmer, Philadelphia, Pa., watches the solar eclipse through solar eclipse glasses during a viewing event for the solar eclipse at Penn State Schuylkill Campus in Schuylkill Haven, Pa., on Monday, August 21, 2017. (Jacqueline Dormer/The Republican-Herald via AP) | Jacqueline Dormer

More than half of the federal government’s major departments offered advice to Americans on how to watch Monday’s solar eclipse safely.

The only major agencies not to offer any advice were the Departments of Education, Housing and Urban Development, Justice, Labor, State and Treasury.

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