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In this article, we will refer back and forth between two very different documents. The first is the Community Health and Airport Operations Related Pollution Report. The second is a Powerpoint® review of that study the Port Commission received in May of 2021. A Timeline In 2019, the State of Washington passed HB 1109. This

The passage of 1791-S.PL acknowledges that the battle for a second airport process (known as the CACC) is lost. But, let’s pretend it’s not. However, if previous efforts (such as the Flight Plan Study of 1989) are any indication, HB-1791 will not only result in years of delay, it will actually work to accelerate the pace

An open letter to the Port of Seattle Commission It’s been almost three and a half years since the Accelerated Sound Insulation program was passed by the Port Commission in 2020. The primary goal was to get all units not started from 1996, which are now inhabited by mostly BIPOC families, (finally) completed by 2026.

The STNI 2023 State Legislative Agenda A letter to members of the Washington State House and Senate representing the airport communities. On behalf of SeaTacNoise.Info: As always, thank you for your efforts this year on behalf of airport communities. They are much appreciated.However, I write today to say that not only are we not moving

The following is a letter to the Port of Seattle Commissioners. A great difficulty in providing justice for the community is simply the fact that in any government, electeds come and go, but the staff persists. Dear Commissioners,Below is a Pilot Project, which addresses your concerns to quantify the need of Port Package Updates and

The comment period for this draft policy rule change ended today. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/09/15/2022-19665/draft-faa-policy-regarding-processing-land-use-changes-on-federally-acquired-or-federally-conveyed https://www.regulations.gov/document/FAA-2022-1203-0001 There are FAA policy changes like this all the time which are generally only noticed by people in ‘the biz’; especially if they don’t have any obvious connection with flight paths or noise or pollution. When we first started watching this sort

I wrote the following article in 2018: *Why There Is No Second Airport In Site I’m throwing up that old news in light of the fact that yesterday, the Commercial Aviation Coordinating Commission (CACC) met its statutory obligation to deliver a recommendation on a ‘second airport’, basically by punting a final decision into 2023 which

A letter to the Commissioners of the Port of Seattle: explaining the history of Port Packages and their place in environmental justice. The American Dream is a safe, healthy home, at an affordable price, where you can raise your children, in one of the most beautiful areas in the world. But with so many Port Package failures and fewer and fewer new homes being eligible for sound insulation, that dream is becoming harder to achieve under the flight path.

Since the beginning of the COVID pandemic, Microsoft has been tracking the shift to remote work through their Worklab research division. But unlike other companies and pundits with various agenda, it has been doing something approaching unbiased research and legitimate analysis. Microsoft is doing a great public service in pursuing these studies. As we’ve pointed