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Noise Links
Aviation
Noise Law
Airport and Aviation Noise Links
The Noise
Pollution Clearinghouse Aviation Noise Page
Community Noise (All Sources)
Safety, Health, and Hearing Organizations
NEW!
Tipp-Monroe
Airport Task Force Tipp-Monroe
Airport Task Force unanimously agrees that the Dayton International
Airporairport expansion is unwarranted. The group consists of elected and
appointed officials and citizens who provide representation on behalf of Tipp
City, Monroe Township, and Miami County. TMATF’s is to inform and educate the
public concerning the issues surrounding the proposed Dayton International
Airport expansion.
Airport Noise Pollution: Is There a Solution in
Sight? (in PDF format)
An article from the Boston
College Environmental Affairs Law Review, Vol. 26:769 1999.
Click here to download the free Adobe Acrobar Reader.
Airport Noise: 15 Ways to Quiet the
Skies
Noise and Health
From Prof. W. Holland, Heathrow Association for the Control of Aircraft Noise, June 1997.
1997 Energy, Environment & Natural Resources: Noise Control
This text is from the Department of Energy and is a section of the National Municipal Policy adopted by the National League of Cities (Section 2, produced by the Committee on Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources). The fact this text has been adopted by the National League of Cities should be a powerful weapon against municipal owners of noisy airports. Is your city a member of NLC?
Environmental Links
Tracking
the Skies: An Airline-Based System for Limiting Greenhouse Gas
Emissions from International Civil Aviation. "This Article
examines options for controlling GHG emissions from civil aviation;
specifically, it explores methods for tracking, reporting, and limiting GHG
emissions from international civil aviation. It recommends a system that
establishes legally binding limits on total international civil aviation
emissions from industrialized nations.
The Centre
for Sustainable Transportation/Le Centre pour le transport durable
Governmental Links
Federal Aviation Administration
US-Environmental Protection Agency
The
Code of Federal Regulations
Health Links
Airports: Deadly
Neighbors
AReCO: Alliance of Residents Concerning
O'Hare