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2025-05-13
Opposition to proposed revisions in FAA grant program, removing Environmental Justice, Climate, and Leaded fuel requirements
Re https://www.regulations.gov/docket/FAA-2025-0605 Our comment to https://www.regulations.gov/docket/FAA-2025-0605 on the negative impacts new FAA regulations will have on Sea-Tac and KCIA airport communities. Although the new regulations are confined to the AIP grant program, because they are being implemented via Executive Order, it is likely that similar features will be tacked onto all FAA programs concerning leaded -
2025-05-12DOGE canceled this UW scientist’s grant — to save just $866
As a scientist who depends on research grants, Elena Austin of the University of Washington can’t bear to look at the DOGE grant-slashing website. “I’ve been trying to avoid it,” she told me. It did not, however, avoid her. DOGE, the Elon Musk-headed Department of Government Efficiency, recently posted that a grant to Austin, an environmental health -
2025-05-12
Newark Airport Had 3 Controllers on Duty When the Goal Is 14
As few as three air traffic controllers were scheduled to work on Monday evening at the facility guiding planes to and from Newark Liberty International Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration said, far fewer than the target of 14 controllers for most of those hours. The staffing crisis added strain to an already troubled aviation system, -
2025-05-11Equipment issue again disrupts air traffic at Newark Liberty airport: FAA
The incident follows a 90-second radar outage at Newark Liberty on Friday. By Bill Hutchinson, Sam Sweeney, and Ayesha Ali May 11, 2025, 10:35 AM Operations resume at Newark Liberty airport after ground stop Operations resume at Newark Liberty airport after ground stopOfficials said the FAA issued the brief 45-minute ground stop after a radio communications issue -
2025-05-11Key Provisions in the 2024 FAA Reauthorization Act and Related GAO Work
GAO-25-108502 Published: May 15, 2025. Publicly Released: May 15, 2025. Fast Facts The U.S. national airspace system is the busiest and most complex in the world, with over 45,000 flights per day. The Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 2024 directs FAA on how the agency is to ensure its safety and efficiency. We testified -
2025-05-10FAA Considers Cutting Newark Airport Flights As United Airlines Calls For Major Reforms
By Alexander Mitchell After over a week of brutal delays and other incidents at Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR), airlines and aviation regulators have decided to meet to plan additional flight cutbacks at the airport to prevent further incidents from arising. According to Bloomberg, these private discussions are an immediate response to multiple incidents in which radar -
2025-05-09Air traffic controllers for Newark airport briefly lose radar access again
By JOSH FUNK The air traffic controllers directing planes into the Newark, New Jersey, airport briefly lost their radar Friday morning for the second time in two weeks, renewing concerns about the nation’s aging air traffic control system that President Donald Trump wants to overhaul. The Federal Aviation Administration said the radar at the facility in -
2025-05-08A Frightening Moment to Fly (The Daily Podcast)
A 90-second failure of Newark Airport’s air-traffic safety systems, which blacked out communication to planes carrying thousands of passengers, has exposed a new level of crisis in air travel. Kate Kelly, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, explains what the problems at one of the country’s biggest airports tell us about air-travel safety -
2025-05-08FAA unveils overhaul of troubled US air traffic control system ‘Brand New’
By JOSH FUNK and JOHN SEEWER The Trump administration on Thursday proposed a multibillion-dollar overhaul of a U.S. air traffic control system that it said still relies on floppy disks and replacement parts found on eBay and has come under renewed scrutiny in the wake of recent deadly plane crashes and technical failures. The plan calls for six new air traffic -
2025-05-08
Des Moines City Council gets update on closed StART meeting
There’s no consensus on consensus At their May 8, 2025 meeting, the Des Moines City Council heard a briefing from the City Manager and one Stakeholder Advisory Roundtable (StART) community member regarding the April 23 closed StART meeting – the first meeting closed to the public since 2019 after three cities temporarily left the group.