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Addressing Community Health Concerns Around Sea-Tac Airport 2000

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Addressing Community Health Concerns Around SeaTac Airport Response to the question, “Is it possible to monitor jet engine exhaust emissions or to model their path using data on prevailing winds and takeoff patterns?” March 2000 Prepared by Washington State Department of Health Washington State Department of Ecology Puget Sound Clean Air Agency In consultation with Public Health – Seattle & King County SeaTac Airport Area Community Representatives United States Environmental Protection Agency University of Washington Washington State University For more information contact Juliet VanEenwyk Washington State Department of Health (360) 236-4250 juliet.vaneenwyk@doh.wa.gov Naydene Maykut Puget Sound Clean Air Agency (206) 689-4062 nmaykut@pscleanair.org John Williamson Washington State Department of Ecology (425) 649-7118 jwil461@ecy.wa.gov Additional copies of this report are available at: http://www.doh.wa.gov/EHSPHL/Epidemiology/NICE/default.htm CONTENTS Abbreviations.................................................................................................................................................. ii Executive Summary ........................................................................................................................................ 1 Preface ............................................................................................................................................................ 5 Background..................................................................................................................................................... 5 Conclusions Based On Previous Air Quality Studies...................................................................................... 6 Rationale For Further Study............................................................................................................................ 7 Health Issues............................................................................................................................................ 7 Environmental Justice.............................................................................................................................. 8 Recommendations........................................................................................................................................... 9 Goals of an Air Quality Study.................................................................................................................. 9 General Recommendations For an Air Quality Study.............................................................................. 9 Methods ........................................................................................................................................................ 10 Manual Methods .................................................................................................................................... 10 Automated Methods............................................................................................................................... 11 Quality Assurance Procedures ............................................................................................................... 11 Data Analysis And Interpretation.................................................................................................................. 12 Initial Data Analysis .............................................................................................................................. 12 Additional Data Analysis ....................................................................................................................... 14 Timeframe..................................................................................................................................................... 16 Estimated Costs as of March 2000................................................................................................................ 17 References..................................................................................................................................................... 18 Attachment 1: Committee Members ............................................................................................................. 19 Attachment 2: Summary of Recent Studies................................................................................................... 21 Attachment 3: Draft List of Recommended Pollutants For Air Monitoring.................................................. 25 Attachment 4: Compendium Method TO-11A.............................................................................................. 27 Attachment 5: Compendium Method TO-13A.............................................................................................. 29 Attachment 6: Compendium Method…

Aerospace Competitive Economics Study (ACES)

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Prepared for: International Association of Machinists (IAM) District 751 Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) on behalf of the Choose Washington New-Mid Market Airplane (NMA) Council Prepared by: Teal Group Corporation Richard Aboulafia, Vice President of Teal Group: The Aerospace Competitive Economics Study is anchored by aerospace industry analyst Richard Aboulafia, who provided in-depth aerospace insight and qualitative analysis for the Study. Richard Aboulafia is Vice President of the Teal Group and has spent over three decades analyzing the aerospace and defense industry. Mr. Aboulafia frequently offers his analysis in major national news media and writes regular columns for Aviation Week & Space Technology and Forbes.com. Contact: 202.352.6294 Tom Zoretich, Senior Economist and Director of Strategic Studies at Teal Group: Teal Group Senior Economist & Director of Strategic Studies Tom Zoretich oversaw quantitative and economic analysis for the ACES Report and Rankings. Mr. Zoretich has worked as an economist with Standard & Poor’s, McGraw-Hill, The US Department of Commerce, and the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Mr. Zoretich has also directed and contributed to projects for dozens of government and Fortune 500 clients, including the US Department of Defense, US Department of Homeland Security, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics and IBM. Contact: 571.201.4943 Evan Woods, Chief Consultant at Olympic Analytics: Olympic Analytics Founder and Chief Consultant Evan Woods built the model architecture and analyzed data for the ACES Rankings. Mr. Woods works on research projects for unions, non-profits and government agencies. Mr. Woods has conducted research for and consulted with…

Air filters, Pollution and Student Achievement

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This paper identifies the achievement impact of installing air filters in classrooms for the first time. To do so, I leverage a unique setting arising from the largest gas leak in United States history, whereby the offending gas company installed air filters in every classroom, office and common area for all schools within five miles of the leak (but not beyond). This variation allows me to compare student achievement in schools receiving air filters relative to those that did not using a spatial regression discontinuity design. I find substantial improvements in student achievement: air filter exposure led to a 0.20 standard deviation increase in mathematics and English scores, with test score improvements persisting into the following year. Air testing conducted inside schools during the leak (but before air filters were installed) showed no presence of natural gas pollutants, implying that the effectiveness of air filters came from removing common air pollutants and so these results should extend to other settings. The results indicate that air filter installation is a highly cost-effective policy to raise student achievement and, given that underprivileged students attend schools in highly polluted areas, one that can reduce the pervasive test score gaps that plague public education. Suggested citation: Gilraine, Michael. (2020). Air Filters, Pollution and Student Achievement. (EdWorkingPaper: 20-188). Retrieved from Annenberg Institute at Brown University: http://www.edworkingpapers.com/ai20-188 Michael Gilraine New York University VERSION: January 2020 EdWorkingPaper No. 20-188 Air Filters, Pollution and Student Achievement Michael Gilraine∗ Department of Economics New York University December 20, 2019 ABSTRACT…

Air Pollution By Jet Aircraft at Sea-Tac Airport 1970

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Air pollution, white matter microstructure, and brain volumes Periods of susceptibility from pregnancy to preadolescence

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0269-7491/© 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Air pollution, white matter microstructure, and brain volumes: Periods of susceptibility from pregnancy to preadolescence☆ Anne-Claire Binter a,b,c, Michelle S.W. Kusters a,b,c,d, Michiel A. van den Dries a,b,c,d, Lucia Alonso a,b,c, Małgorzata J. Lubczyńska a,b,c, Gerard Hoek e, Tonya White d,f, Carmen Iñiguez c,g,h, Henning Tiemeier d,i, j, Mònica Guxens a,b,c,d,* a ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain b Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain c CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Spain d Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychology, Erasmus MC, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands e Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands f Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands g Department of Statistics and Operational Research, Universitat de València, Spain h Epidemiology and Environmental Health Joint Research Unit, FISABIO-Universitat Jaume I-Universitat de València, València, Spain The Generation R Study Group, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands j Department of Social and Behavioral Science, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA A R T I C L E I N F O Keywords: Cohort studies Child development Air pollution Neuroimaging Time series A B S T R A C T Air pollution exposure during early-life is associated with altered brain development, but the precise periods of susceptibility are unknown. We aimed to investigate whether there are periods of susceptibility of air pollution between conception and preadolescence in…

Aircraft Impacts on Local and Regional Air Quality in the United States Partner Project 15 Final Report

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Aircraft Impacts on Local and Regional Air Quality in the United States Partnership for AiR Transportation Noise And Emissions Reduction Project Final Report Gayle Ratliff, Christopher Sequeira, and Ian Waitz Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts Melissa Ohsfeldt and Theodore Thrasher CSSI Inc, Washington DC Michael Graham and Terence Thompson Metron Aviation, Herndon, Virginia
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An underestimated danger: Noise and air pollution are new and important cardiovascular risk factors

Environmental stressors such as traffic noise pose a threat to human health worldwide. A study by DZHK researcher Prof. Thomas Münzel, published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, shows that noise has negative effects on blood vessels and the brain within a very short exposure time. Other recent review articles co-authored by him show

Beacon Hill Noise Project 2018 Rpt

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Members/Beacon Hill residents: Ariana Casey, Bridget Ferriss, Deirdre Curle, Joe Albert, Lynda Wong, Monique Cherrier, Ray Nicoli, Roseanne Lorenzana Advisor: Dr. Edmund Seto, Univ of Wash Dept of Occupational & Environmental Science, School of Public Health Summer interns/UW Class of 2019: Eileen Tran, Phan Su Contact: Dr. Roseanne Lorenzana, contact@chacusa.org or rlorenza@uw.edu Acknowledgements The Beacon Hill Noise Team would like to thank Alicia Diefenbach and the Verity Credit Union microgrant program for providing funds to purchase the noise measurement equipment and the Beacon Hill Merchants Association for being the fiscal sponsor for the Verity CU funds. We would also like to thank Estela Ortega, El Centro de la Raza and U.S.EPA Region 10 for providing the funds to support our summer interns (USEPA Problem Solving Collaboration 01J27101 Community Empowerment Grant). And, a big thanks to all the Beacon Hill residents who volunteered to host a noise measurement device at their home. This project was possible because of the work of the Beacon Hill volunteer community. Introduction The overarching goal of the project was to conduct Citizen Science measurements with University of Washington undergraduate student summer interns paid by El Centro de la Raza to help residents collect noise measurements. The project aimed to empower residents to collect new noise measurement data, which may benefit future follow-up activities, including collecting additional measurements, improving community awareness of noise levels, and follow-up research by others to quantify relationships to potential noise sources and health impacts. This is the first project to collect quality…
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Compendium of WHO and other UN guidance on health and environment – Environmental Noise (2022)

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Some rights reserved. This work is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO licence (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/igo). Suggested citation. Environmental noise. In: Compendium of WHO and other UN guidance on health and environment, 2022 update. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2022 (WHO/HEP/ECH/EHD/22.01). Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

Environmental Systems Laboratory Air Quality Study Of Sea-Tac Airport 06/73

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Sou=ces . . . . . . . . . . . Carbon Monoxide Chemistry . Effec~s of Carbon Monoxide . . . Hydrocarbons . . . . . Sources . . . . . . . . Hydrocarbon Chemistry . 2ffec~s of Hydrocarbons . Nitrogen Oxides ... so~rces . . . . . . . . Che~ical Interactions of Nitrogen Oxides in t~e A~~OS?here . . . . . . . . . . . . Effects of Nitrogen Oxides . . . . Photochemical Oxidants . . . . . . Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . Effects of Photochemical Oxidants on Vege~a~ion, Materials, and Animals Pa=ticulate . . . . . . . . . Sou=ces cf:ec~s of Particulate Matter . . . ~~ie~t Air Quality Standards Re:: ere:1ces . . . . . . . • . . . . . EX: ST:~iG AIR QUALITY Topographical and Cli~a~ic Conditions . Meteo=ology . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mixing De?th and Turbulence Classification Near SEA-TAC . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ar=hival Air Quality . . . . . Meteorological Parameters and Air Pollution Levels A~ SEA-TAC . . . . . . . . Locaticn of &ubient Air Quality Measure~ents Near SE...A.-T.;.c • • . • • • • • • • • . • • . Ex~sting Air Quality-Carbon Monoxide (CO) ... Ex~s~1~g…

Estimates of HVAC filtration efficiency for fine and ultrafine particles of outdoor origin

Parham Azimi, Dan Zhao, Brent Stephens Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA Received 31 July 2014, Revised 26 August 2014, Accepted 3 September 2014, Available online 4 September 2014. Abstract This work uses 194 outdoor particle size distributions (PSDs) from the literature to estimate single-pass heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) filter removal efficiencies for

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Hansen & Sanders – Adverse Health Impacts of Airport Expansion (Sea-Tac), October 5, 1992

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From the Health Subcommittee of the Environmental Impact Committee of the Regional Coalition on Airport Affairs Prepared by : D. Dennis Hansen, M. D. Lee A. Sanders M. D. , Ph. D. With assistance from Mark Bened llm ( Associate Administrator Highline Hospital) Rose Clark (Concerned local citizen) 10/5/92 - P SUWARY OF ADVERSE HEALTH EFFECTS OF AIRPORTS Fiction : Airport noise is a minor annoyance and people living near the airport should be 'lgood sports" and learn to ignore it Fact : Airport noise results in a significant increase in community use of tranquil i z ers and sleeping pills . Airport communities have an increased rate of alcoholism , and admissions to psychiatric hospitals . Airport-related noise can literally drive people mad. II li I1 I1 I1 I1 I1 I1 I1 I1 I1 I1 I1 I1 I1 I1 I1 I1 I1 1 Fiction : Communities near the airport offer affordable housing and would be suitable for young families. Fact : Infants born to mothers living under the flight path have lower birth weights and higher likelihood of prematurity. There is some experimental evidence to suggest that serious birth defects are more likely when the mother is exposed to high noise levels during pregnancy. Airport communities are unsafe for pregnant women and their children II II II II II tIll I II II II II II II II II II II II II Fiction : Although it is annoying, airport noise will not affect your physical health . Fact…
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Harbor Communities Monitoring Study

This page last reviewed March 12, 2015   This website contains information pertaining to the Harbor Communities Monitoring Study (HCMS), conducted to characterize air quality in the communities of the greater Wilmington area. The air pollution measurement phase occurred during 2007. The primary goal of this study is to characterize the spatial variations in air

Health Based Criteria for Use in Managing Airport and Aircraft Noise (Johnson-2018)

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Health Based Criteria for Use in Managing Airport and Aircraft Noise Permanent link http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:37945140 Terms of Use This article was downloaded from Harvard University’s DASH repository, and is made available under the terms and conditions applicable to Other Posted Material, as set forth at http:// nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:dash.current.terms-of-use#LAA Share Your Story The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Submit a story . Accessibility http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:37945140 http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:dash.current.terms-of-use#LAA http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:dash.current.terms-of-use#LAA http://osc.hul.harvard.edu/dash/open-access-feedback?handle=&title=Health%20Based%20Criteria%20for%20Use%20in%20Managing%20Airport%20and%20Aircraft%20Noise&community=1/14557738&collection=1/14557739&owningCollection1/14557739&harvardAuthors=1d8a59eaac33366278a0471eb8917af3&department https://dash.harvard.edu/pages/accessibility

Health Profile for the Sea-Tac Airport Community SKCDOH Epidemiology. Planning & Evaluation Unit February 1999

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Health Profile for the SeaTac Airport Community Prepared by: Seattle'King County Department of Public Health Epidemiology, Planning & Evaluation Unit For questions about this report, please contact: David Solet, PhD Epidemiology, Planning & Evaluation Unit Seattle-King County Department of Public Health 999 Third Avenue, Suite 1200 Seattle, WA 981 04 Tel: (206) 296-6817 e Fax: (206) 205-5314E-mail: david.solet@metrokc.gov DATA SUMMARY Health Profile for the SeaTac Airport Community 8People of All Ages The percent of the population living in poverty and without a high school diploma is higher in the SeaTac Airport Community compared to King County as a whole. Although SeaTac is diverse, it is predominantly a blue.collar community: in 1990, seven of 10 SeaTac adults were in working-class occupations. Chronic diseases such as heart disease, stroke, cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are the leading causes of death in SeaTac and King County. Cancer of the lung and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, two diseases closely linked with cigarette smoking, were elevated in the SeaTac Airport Community compared to the County as a whole. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in SeaTac, King County and the U.S. There is no adult smoking data specifically for the SeaTac community. However, the percent of adults in South County as a whole who were smokers is somewhat higher compared to King County (24% and 19%, respectively). AIDS death rates are lower in SeaTac than in the County, and have turned downward in recent years. Firearm-related deaths (suicide and homicide)…
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