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By  Adam Smith  and  Hamdi Mohamed Special to The Seattle Times For the first time in five years, Congress is working its way through the reauthorization process for the Federal Aviation Administration.  It is imperative that Congress uses this opportunity to better incorporate the voices of communities affected by aviation in the federal aviation system.

The next stage of getting workers back at their desks includes incentives like $10 to the charity of their choice — and consequences like poor performance evaluations if they don’t make the trek in. For 10 days, Salesforce is giving a $10 charitable donation per day on behalf of any employee who comes into the

By Dominic Gates Seattle Times aerospace reporter PARIS — Airbus and Boeing are each helping with tests of a radical new engine design with an open fan being developed by CFM International, making it a prime candidate to power the next generation of all new airplanes in the mid-to-late 2030s. The new engine with a

By  Julie Johnsson Bloomberg Boeing Co. predicts airlines around the world will add 42,595 jets valued at about $8 trillion over the next two decades, even as concerns over climate change affect the way consumers travel. The U.S. plane-maker’s latest tally of industrywide deliveries over the next 20 years takes into account growing activism over

118th CONGRESS BILLS-118hr4178ih To reestablish the Office of Noise Abatement and Control in the Environmental Protection Agency, and for other purposes. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Sponsors Ms. Meng (for herself, Mr. Beyer, Ms. Brownley, Mr. Cárdenas, Ms. Chu, Ms. Clarke of New York, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr. Grijalva, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. Lynch, Mr. Nadler, Ms. Moore of Wisconsin, Mr. Quigley, Mr. Raskin, Ms. Norton, Mr. Schiff, and Mr. Sarbanes) introduced the following bill; which

A recent class action filed against Delta Airlines is among the first major consumer cases targeting claims of carbon neutrality. The complaint, filed in Mayanna Berrin v. Delta Airlines Inc., No. 2:23-cv-04150 (C.D. Cal.) on May 30, 2023, in the United States District Court for the Central District of California, takes aim at Delta Airlines’

By Marissa Nall  –  Reporter, Puget Sound Business Journal Jun 15, 2023 Listen to this article     3 min Private airline services companies have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into the development of King County International Airport — Boeing Field in the past several years. Now the airport is launching its own planning effort to meet the forecast for rising

We used a professional sound meter the din of daily life and talked to scientists about the health risks it can pose. Emily Baumgaertner, Jason Kao, Eleanor Lutz, Josephine Sedgwick, Rumsey Taylor, Noah Throop and Josh WilliamsJune 9, 2023 On a spring afternoon in Bankers Hill, San Diego, the soundscape is serene: Sea breeze rustles through the trees, and neighbors chat pleasantly

By Marissa Nall  –  Reporter, Puget Sound Business Journal Alaska Air Group Inc. (NYSE: ALK) is underway on over a half-billion dollars’ worth of improvements at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport that will alter the way passengers check into their flights. The project, dubbed SEA Gateway, is the single largest construction project in Alaska’s history, said Shane Jones, vice president of

COURT: D.D.C. TRACK DOCKET: No. 1:23-cv-01649 The US Environmental Protection Agency shirked its duties to enforce the Noise Control Act, resulting in nationwide noise pollution, a new federal lawsuit alleged. Quiet Communities Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to reducing noise pollution, sued the agency Wednesday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia. The group alleges