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Erik Stanford started this petition to Federal Aviation Administration & Port of Seattle Beacon Hill and Southeast Seattle have 80,000 residents. The community has the city’s largest populations of children, the elderly, disabled persons, people of color, and first-generation Americans who do not speak English as their first language. We are impacted by THREE airports; Renton Airport,

Joseph Kellard, Patch Staff Posted Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 4:00 pm ET Story and photos by Tara Conry Is the Federal Aviation Administration compromising safety and ignoring an agreement to reduce noise pollution in order to maximize efficiency at JFK airport? Those were the charges residents made at the Oct. 23 meeting of the

The Port of Seattle’s chief executive, Tay Yoshitani, should not be allowed to keep that job while also serving as a board member of Expeditors International, a freight-expediting company, at a salary of $230,000 in cash and stock. Public officials have one master: the public.

Four passenger flights into Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Monday evening will launch a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) test project that promises to leave Seattle’s skies quieter and greener. By Dominic Gates Seattle Times aerospace reporter Shortly after 11 p.m. Monday evening, Alaska Airlines flight 432 from Los Angeles will be the first passenger flight into

by Scott SchaeferJune 6, 2012 [/caption]  The Port of Seattle Commission on Tuesday (June 5) approved the lease of over 42 acres in the Des Moines Creek Business Park (DMCBP) that will create over 200 construction jobs and 250 permanent jobs for the area. The City of Des Moines will receive approximately $676,000 in ongoing revenue annually.

Two ironworkers shake hands after putting the final beam in place for Sea-Tac Airport’s consolidated rental car facility. The facility will open to the public on May 17. Port of Seattle photo SeaTac City Council members heard a presentation recently by Port commissioner John Creighton on the Port of Seattle’s Century Agenda. The agenda is

By Felicity Barringer Feb. 18, 2012 Fine atmospheric particles — smaller than one-thirtieth of the diameter of a human hair — were identified more than 20 years ago as the most lethal of the widely dispersed air pollutants in the United States. Linked to both heart and lung disease, they kill an estimated 50,000 Americans

FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 – Title I: Authorizations – Subtitle A: Funding of FAA Programs – (Sec. 101) Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) out of the Airport and Airway Trust Fund for FY2012-FY2015 for: (1) airport planning and development and noise compatibility planning programs, (2) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

Elizabeth Kolbert Some international disputes are significant for symbolic reasons, others for substantive ones. The current conflict between the United States and the European Union over airline-emissions limits is both. Unfortunately this means that the U.S. is doubly on the wrong side. The Obama Administration ought to be applauding the Europeans. Instead it’s threatening a

Reporting from Chicago —  Continental Airlines flight 1403 made history when it landed at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago on Monday, becoming the first revenue passenger trip in the U.S. powered by biofuel. The Boeing 737-800 burned a “green jet fuel” derived partially from genetically modified algae that feed on plant waste and produce oil. In