Category : From The Web(1217)

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

When several hundred Seattle Amazon.com Inc. employees staged a walkout on May 31, it was in part over the company’s stricter return-to-office policy that went into effect at the beginning of May. Its requirement that employees work in the office three days a week meant Amazon’s 65,000-employee local corporate and tech workforce have had to resume

Herwig Schuster 1 June 2022 • 7 min read Airlines around the globe have been vying with each other on who has the greenest and shiniest announcements recently. British Airways made headlines with its plan to use sustainable aviation fuel on a commercial scale, Air France claimed to aim for a 12% cut in emissions by 2030, and Ryanair has

By  Dominic Gates  Seattle Times aerospace reporter Ahead of the Paris Air Show later this month, Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun this week expressed confidence in the jetmaker’s path to recovery and its ability to catch up with rival Airbus. Speaking in North Charleston, South Carolina, he also made comments about Boeing’s next all-new airplane that

By ED DAVEY The Associated Press A consumer class action lawsuit filed Tuesday claims Delta Air Lines inaccurately billed itself as the world’s “first carbon-neutral airline” and should pay damages. The complaint in federal court in California alleges the airline relied on carbon offsets that were largely bogus. Companies around the world buy carbon credits

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport was renamed Henry M. Jackson International Airport in tribute to the late senator for six months in the early 1980s. (Feliks Banel/KIRO Radio) BY FELIKS BANEL Local historian The history of the word “Sea-Tac” (or “Seatac,” or “SeaTac”) as an abbreviation for “Seattle-Tacoma” can feel a little murky sometimes. As far as anybody

In the 1970s, residents near the flight paths headed into and out of SeaTac Airport and its two runways complained to the Port of Seattle that the constant movement of jets overhead posed a serious disruption to life and a hazard to health. Now, almost 50 years on, with a larger airport, newer planes and

NPR LA Johnson A group of small children sits cross-legged with their teacher, Steve Mejía-Menendez, on a round carpet. He’s a pre-K teacher at Lee Montessori Public Charter School’s campus in Southeast Washington, D.C., and although I’m here to meet him, I almost don’t spot him because he’s eye level with his students. Mr. Steve,