Seattle Times – Airport Construction Slowed by Ecology Laws, 1973

· "There is a vital need for· ne , ai~rts to relieve ex- isting ones at or near ·criti· cal capacity, for example in northeast .(Bos- . ton•Washington; D. C.). · "Yet .only two major hub airports ·are being built - Kansas City and Dallas- Fort Worth .. . to put it more bluntly,. the American air-transportation system is in a crunch," Greenfield· said. He said the environmental impact of the aircraft indus- try, in the. opinion of -the public, centers on airports and not airplanes. An airpvrt has a primary environmental impact from noise pollution and ai r and water pollution, includ- ing waste oils, coming di· rectly from the airport. The secondary impact involves the pollution j:!enerate

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Call to order – Roll Call – Quorum Established – Land Acknowledgement We would like to acknowledge that our Agency operates in four present-day counties, which are the traditional lands of the Coast Salish people, past and present. This acknowledgement does not take the place of authentic relationships with indigenous communities in our jurisdiction and [...]