Ep #43 Air Quality Monitoring Update (Raw!)

Recent Stories

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  High profile Sea-Tac air pollution class action lawsuit grounded by Ninth Circuit

  Clean Air Act preempts state claims over aircraft pollution After three years, a widely-promoted class action lawsuit on behalf of residents around Sea-Tac Airport has finally been heard in federal court. The September 23 opinion by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is not good. The original complaint tried to hold the Port of Seattle,
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  Highline Forum Postgame

  The sparsely attended meeting of electeds and administrators from the Highline Cities and Schools was held at the Des Moines Police Station and featured two updates of interest to readers: SAMP SEPA DEIS Summary Port Environmental Manager Steve Rybolt is charged with reviewing public the 490 comments provided. He stated that though this number is
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  Boeing allowed to keep making 777 freighter despite climate rules

  By Lauren Rosenblatt Seattle Times business reporter The Federal Aviation Administration last week granted Boeing’s 777 freighter a few more years of production, waiving looming emissions requirements for up to 35 new aircraft. Without that exemption, Boeing would have had to sunset production of the Everett-built 777 freighter in 2028 because the cargo plane would
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  VA Senators drop bill to cap operations at Reagan DCA

  Targets all the right problems. Almost no chance of passing. On September 10, Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner introduced the DCA Air Safety Act, a response to the January 2025 midair collision near Reagan National that killed 67 people. It is the single most direct statement for rational airport management in four decades. It
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  Nashville suburbs sue FAA over new departure headings

  Nashville's suburbs are taking the FAA to court arguing against the same shortcut to changing flight paths used in so many previous community lawsuits: CATEX, challenging new departure headings and Performance-Based Navigation procedures at Nashville International Airport — an airport growing from 200,000 to an expected 300,000-plus annual operations by 2037. At the heart of the case are troubling contradictions in the FAA's own paperwork: noise modeling that claims zero impact anywhere in the study area, while a separate FAA letter quietly acknowledges noise increases of more than 5 dB in two locations. Add in a categorical exclusion that deliberately splits one airspace redesign into smaller pieces to avoid public environmental review, and a nature preserve being modeled without accounting for terrain — and a familiar pattern emerges.