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  • Flying taxis will bring traffic jams to the sky

    When Rick Deckard, the hero of the 1982 science fiction film Blade Runner, gazes down at a futuristic Los Angeles from a flying police car, a Pan Am sign shines on one of the towers. It is a nod to the helicopter service from the old Pan Am airline building in Manhattan to John F

  • Gary Idleburg

    Mr Idleburg is with the Washington Department Of Commerce and is directing the Stakeholders- The Washington state Department of Commerce is hiring a consultant to study the ongoing noise and public health impacts of fast-growing Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The department has issued a request for proposals giving potential consultant-bidders until March 15 to make pitches

  • Sea-Tac Stakeholder Advisory Round Table (StART)

    “StART enhances cooperation between the Port of Seattle and the neighboring communities of Sea-Tac Airport” The Sea-Tac Airport Stakeholder Advisory Round Table (StART) is a new way for the communities of Burien, Des Moines, Federal Way, Normandy Park, SeaTac and Tukwila to engage with Port of Seattle staff and aviation industry representatives. StART provides a

  • The Real Cost of Your Cheap Flights to Berlin

    Campaign groups reckon that if plane fuel was taxed properly, it could help to reverse the cuts to legal aid, disability benefits, employ 5,000 more nurses and build ten new hospitals every year. Photo: Jamie Clifton In the middle of the Polish plains, about 200km southwest of Warsaw, sits the sprawling hulk of the Belchatow

  • Port Of Seattle Regular Meeting

    Commission Chambers at Pier 69, 2711 Alaskan Way, Seattle
  • 2019-06-09

    Des Moines, other cities, hire consultant to seek ways to control airport noise

    By Jack Mayne At Thursday night’s (June 5) Des Moines City Council study session, lawmakers heard from aviation consultants the city has hired to help steer the city through increases in aviation traffic noise and pollution affecting Des Moines and the other Sea-Tac Airport concerned participants, Burien, SeaTac and Normandy Park. The consultants’ major point

  • Minneapolis-Saint Paul MAC Noise Program Office Website

    Working together with Minnesota communities, aircraft operators and the FAA to reduce the impact of aircraft noise.

  • The ‘flight shame’ issue comes home to Rick Steves

    Rick Steves, the Edmonds travel guru, plans to pay a million dollars a year to make up for the carbon emissions linked to his travel business. (Don Ryan / AP)  By Danny Westneat Seattle Times columnist Rick Steves is in a bit of a conundrum. One that not even a million bucks is likely to

  • Contrails Are Air Travel’s Dirty Secret

    A new German Aerospace Center study says the clouds formed in the wake of planes have an impact on the climate that’s not being properly addressed. Air travel is predicted to increase in the coming years, the exhaust from planes filling more of our skies with clouds known as contrails. These clouds are largely unaccounted

  • Des Moines City Council Meeting

    SAMP Consultants will give a presentation.