Media Coverage Of FAA’s NextGen Air And Noise Pollution
Since the implementation of NextGen, there’s been a steady escalation of media coverage of the problems created by NextGen.
As the FAA continues to expand NextGen across the country with little or no concern for the hundreds of thousands of citizens being impacted by air and noise pollution, the amount of media coverage of the problem continues to grow. While it would be a full-time job requiring a team to fully digest all the media coverage of NextGen problems, below is a list of recent coverage highlighting NextGen problems.
FAA Study Finds Noise From Airplanes, Helicopters More Annoying Than Other Sources
“The FAA’s Neighborhood Environmental Survey tells us what we already knew loud and clear: Our communities are ravaged by aircraft noise,” said Rep. Thomas Suozzi (D-N.Y.), a vice chair of the Quiet Skies Caucus.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/airplane-noise-study/2021/03/26/533a0f5e-8c0e-11eb-a6bd-0eb91c03305a_story.html
DC Attorney General Urges FAA To Change Airport Noise Policy
Attorney General Karl Racine also said the FAA didn’t apply its noise policy consistently and fairly when rerouting flights to and from Reagan National Airport in 2015, leading to an increase in noise near the airport.
DC attorney general urges FAA to change airport-noise policy
Cities in Miami Challenging New Flight Paths Over Their Neighborhoods
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article248291080.html
Congressional Quiet Skies Caucus Sends Letter To President-elect Biden and Incoming Secretary of Transportation Buttigieg About New FAA Appointees And Fixing FAA NextGen
“We represent Americans from diverse locales across the country, united by grave concern over the toll that noise can take on the people living with a constant drone of aircraft. Planes fly low or late at night, near homes and schools; flights arrive and depart within minutes of each other; and the FAA’s NextGen project has concentrated flight paths without consideration of the people below. As a result of these policies, millions of Americans suffer from sleep disruption; exacerbation of high blood pressure and other chronic diseases; learning loss in schools; and economic losses to businesses ranging from tourism to technology to entertainment.
For decades the agency has consistently downplayed and overlooked the toll of noise disruption on human lives and communities. The NextGen project to update the technology used to control air traffic has brought foreseeable problems that could have been headed off if the agency, early in its planning stages, had considered what happens on the ground as well as what happens in the skies and included in the process business owners, local elected officials, airport noise roundtables, health advocates, and others likely to be affected.”
FAA Chief Helped Delta Retaliate Against Whistleblower In Previous Role Administrative Judge Rules
https://www.wsj.com/articles/faa-chief-helped-delta-retaliate-against-whistleblower-in-previous-role-administrative-judge-rules-11609085771?mod=hp_lista_pos1
FAA Survey Finds Employees Under Strong Pressure From Industry And In Fear Of Retaliation For Raising Safety Concerns
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/faa-survey-finds-employees-under-strong-pressure-from-industry-and-in-fear-of-retaliation-for-raising-safety-concerns/2020/08/07/11cc3dda-d8e0-11ea-930e-d88518c57dcc_story.html
Montgomery County And Arlington County (Washington, DC Area) Team-Up To Fight Airplane Noise At National Airport (Talks About FAA NextGen)
Over 27 Members of Congress Send The FAA A Letter Criticizing the FAA’s Noise Evaluation Study As Deeply-Flawed and Inadequate
“In the letter to the FAA sent on Sept. 23, the members of Congress said the report was “wholly inadequate” and failed to meet the mandates of the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018.”
“Section 188 of the reauthorization act required the FAA to “evaluate alternative metrics to the current average day-night level standard, such as the use of actual noise sampling and other methods, to address airplane noise concerns.” The FAA was also required to release a report on its findings. The lawmakers said the report fails to seriously analyze and consider those alternative metrics.“
“The FAA’s report is unacceptable,” said Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA). “The FAA failed to meet its mandate because it didn’t evaluate alternative noise metrics, standing by standards that don’t fully capture noise impacts. The FAA must go back to the drawing board and write a new report. In the meantime, I expect detailed responses to the questions raised by our constituents in this letter, and I know my colleagues want answers, too.”
Local Officials Want More Time From FAA To Comment On Hollywood Burbank Airport Project
“The FAA’s extension falls far short of what would be an appropriate amount of time for a project of this magnitude,” Krekorian said. “Regrettably, the FAA has again missed an opportunity to demonstrate good faith to the people of the San Fernando Valley who suffer the consequences of the agency’s decisions.”
US Open Legacy Northeast Queens Airplane Noise (Describes How FAA NextGen Is Destroying Communities In The New York Area With Air And Noise Pollution)
FAA Refuses To Make Changes To Alleviate NextGen Problems In Boston Area Even After Input From MIT, Boston Area Communities and Massport
https://patch.com/massachusetts/medford/medford-mayor-continues-push-alleviate-airplane-noise
New Research From Phoenix, Arizona Shows How The Proposed Flight Paths Shown By FAA To Communities Were Not Accurate
Living Near An Airport Could Impact The Health of Newborns (References How FAA NextGen Is Exposing Expectant Mothers To Dangerous Decibel Levels)
https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/living-near-an-airport-could-impact-the-health-of-newborns
Washington, DC Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton Requests GAO Add Reagan National Airport To Metroplex Noise Study
“As a senior member of the Aviation Subcommittee of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and Co-Chair of the Quiet Skies Caucus, I have been deeply involved with the implementation of the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen). I appreciate the Government Accountability Office (GAO) agreeing to study how the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has considered community noise impacts while implementing NextGen in major metropolitan areas. I write to include Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) in this upcoming study. “
FAA Announces Millions In New Airport Funding For Maryland And Virginia
At BWI, the new funding will support noise mitigation efforts. The airport is getting $665,000 to purchase land in the airport’s noise zone. The airport, located in Anne Arundel County, has seen a wave of complaints from neighbors over airplane noise since flight patterns were shifted as part of the FAA’s NextGen initiative.
https://wtop.com/local/2020/09/faa-announces-millions-in-new-airport-funding-for-maryland-virginia/
Fetal Health Negatively Impacted By Airplane Noise
Fetal Health Negatively Impacted by Airplane Noise
Hollywood Burbank Airport Building New Terminal (Article Points Out All the Unresolved Problems That FAA NextGen Has Created In The Surrounding Communities)
Scottsdale, Arizona Adds To FAA Legal Tab As Mediation Appears To Be On The Table
FAA Attempts To Relax Noise Rules On Supersonic Travel
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/04/13/2020-07039/noise-certification-of-supersonic-airplanes
Court Dismisses Howard County’s (Maryland) Request For FAA Flight Paths Change
https://patch.com/maryland/columbia/court-dismisses-hocos-request-review-faa-flight-path-change
New Departure Procedures Would Provide Jet Noise Relief For Coastal Communities
https://obrag.org/2020/07/new-departure-procedure-would-provide-jet-noise-relief-for-coastal-communities/
FAA To Implement New Flight Paths in Las Vegas In November
https://lasvegassun.com/news/2020/jul/17/faa-to-implement-new-flight-paths-for-las-vegas-in/
Congresswoman Frederica Wilson: FAA Extending Public Comment Period On Flight Paths In Her South Florida District
https://www.floridadaily.com/frederica-wilson-faa-extending-public-comment-period-on-flight-paths-in-her-south-florida-district/
Airplane Noise Appears To Negatively Impact Fetal Health
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-07-airplane-noise-negatively-impact-fetal.html
FAA NextGen Pattern Change Opposition, Orlando Florida
We Need Less Airport Noise And Expansion And Current Flight Paths Don’t Help
The FAA And Los Angeles World Airports Are Assaulting Us; 176,090% Increase In Air Noise Complaints
Task Force Votes To Send FAA Recommendations To Reduce Noise Over Homes
Task Force Votes to Send FAA Recommendations to Reduce Noise Over Homes
FAA Commits To Studying Changes In Airplane Routes Over Medford, MA
https://patch.com/massachusetts/medford/faa-commits-studying-changes-airplane-routes-over-medford
FAA To Implement New Denver Area Flight Paths Despite Protests
FAA to implement new Denver-area flight paths despite protests
Changes In Flight Paths At Burbank Airport Are Causing Distress In Surrounding Areas
Scottsdale, Arizona Returns To Court Over Flight Paths
Letters To The Editor: Denton, Texas
“There is also a massive influx of airplane noise as well as a result of flight path changes under the FAA’s NextGen program. As I write, airplanes roar overhead every few minutes. I wear earmuffs inside my own home much of the time. When residents are having to wear noise-cancelling headphones and earmuffs in their own homes, when for years there were no issues, something has been terribly mismanaged.”
https://dentonrc.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/letters-to-the-editor-feb/article_df9d7ab7-e726-51ea-a288-43d8817895d2.html
Quiet Skies Congressional Caucus Gets Brush Off From FAA
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/quiet-skies-congressional-caucus-gets-64672/
Airport Task Force To Consider Possible Actions To Abate Noise Issues
Scottsdale Braces For Fight With FAA Over Flight Paths
Scottsdale City Council Unanimously Votes To Move Ahead With Filing Legal Petition Against The FAA
The Fight Continues: Scottsdale Plans To File Petition Against FAA Denial
Noticing A Lot Of Aircraft Noise Lately in SCV? (Santa Clarita Valley, California)
http://https://signalscv.com/2020/02/lynne-plambeck-noticing-a-lot-of-aircraft-noise-lately-in-scv/
Boston Federal Lawmakers Send Letter To CEO’s At Delta, Southwest And American Airlines Seeking NextGen Relief
Boston Federal Lawmakers Looking for a Quieter Logan
Is Sacramento Neighborhood Winning Its Battle Against Low-Flying Airplanes?
https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/transportation/back-seat-driver/article239950558.html
Feds Give Final OK To New DIA Flight Path Plan Despite Objections
https://www.denverpost.com/2020/01/24/denver-airport-faa-metroplex-gilpin-centennial/
Noise, Then Lawsuits
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/18/business/planes-noise-flight-paths.html
Assemblyman Braunstein And Senator Avella Announce Columbia University Study On How New Flight Patterns (FAA NextGen) Impact Human Health
https://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/Edward-C-Braunstein/story/83264
FAA New Air Traffic Control System NextGen Causing Major Noise Pollution
Noise Pollution: NextGen Is The FAA’s Carte Blanche To Wreak Havoc On The Public’s Ears And Serenity
Angry – And Affluent – Homeowners Raise Ruckus Over Roar Of Overhead Planes
Additional Community Groups Provide Possible Solutions To Aircraft Noise
BWI Roundtable Group Approves Proposal To Reduce Noise Pollution, Heads To Federal Agency’s Desk
City Council Looks For Way To Sue FAA
https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2018/05/09/city-council-again-looks-for-ways-to-sue-faa
Milton To Hold Meeting On Airplane Noise
https://www.patriotledger.com/news/20191104/milton-to-hold-meeting-on-airplane-noise
FAA Responds To Noise Issues Out Of Hollywood Burbank And Van Nuys Airports Amid Chorus Of Hisses
Medford Mayor Wants Plane Noise Study Focuesed On Children’s Sleep Quality
Medford mayor wants plane noise study focused on children, sleep quality
The Unheard-Of Noise Pollution From The FAA’s Wasteful NextGen Program
FAA Pushes Back On Claims Of Increased Noise For South Denver Metro
https://www.denverpost.com/2019/05/09/faa-nextgen-dia-flight-paths-littleton/
Weary Of Air Traffic Noise, Islanders Seek A Reprieve
Congressman Steve Lynch In A Dogfight With FAA Over Logan Airport Route Changes
He calls the FAA the “most unresponsive agency in government.”
https://www.wgbh.org/news/post/us-rep-steve-lynch-dogfight-faa-over-logan-airport-route-changes
Like a ‘stab in your brain’- Complaints From Bay Area Residents In Noisy Flight Path Spike 2,706%
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-california-noise-faa-html-20151117-htmlstory.html
Emotions Run High At FAA Flight Path Public Meeting In Liberty Station (San Diego)
Emotions Run High at FAA Flight Path Public Meeting in Liberty Station
Our Say: Congress Needs To Put The FAA On Notice Over NextGen Noise
https://www.capitalgazette.com/opinion/our-say/ac-ce-our-say-20180719-story.html
