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2025-12-08Des Moines Airport Advisory Committee Meeting Agenda and Minutes
Airport Advisory Committee meeting agenda for December 8, 2025, including items on SAMP updates, StART meeting updates, complaints/communications, and committee work plan. Responses on noise complaint from Laurel Hughes. Also includes minutes from the November 10, 2025 meeting with discussion of Q&A with Steve Edmiston and various airport-related updates. -
2025-12-08Airport Advisory Committee Meeting Agenda and Minutes
Airport Advisory Committee meeting agenda for December 8, 2025, including items on SAMP updates, StART meeting updates, complaints/communications, and committee workplan. Also includes minutes from the November 10, 2025 meeting with discussion of Q&A with Steve Edmiston and various airport-related updates. -
2025-12-01Case 25-7439 Docket Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
A mediation questionnaire filed in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals challenging the FAA’s September 2025 FONSI/ROD for Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Sustainable Airport Master Plan Near-Term Projects. The Cities contend the FAA’s environmental review violated NEPA by using an artificially truncated environmental baseline and failing to assess cumulative impacts. -
2025-10-24Permitting Reform in Action: CEQ Updates Roadmap for Agency NEPA Compliance
Permitting Reform in Action CEQ Updates Roadmap for Agency Highlights The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) on Sept. 29, 2025, issued new, nonbinding guidance to assist federal agencies with implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), updating the prior memorandum that CEQ had issued in February 2025 in light of recent case law and -
2025-10-23Ep #12 The Westside Hilltop Survival Committee
The Airport Communities Podcast Last week we talked about how the SAMP EA can say that the air quality is within standards. There was this (brief) ‘golden age’ of NEPA where you could get pollutants reviewed and problems fixed. It made dramatic improvements to the environment and public health. This week, we start providing some -
2025-10-16
Ep #11 No Data? No Problem.
The Airport Communities Podcast Last week we answered a series of questions from the previous week. (We get many of the same questions every week.) We had intended to talk about the Port of Seattle’s recent SAMP Webinar, but host JC came across the book Particles of Truth at a recent UWDEOHS seminar on community -
2025-10-14Sustainable Airport Master Plan Near-Term Projects Update
Port of Seattle presentation updating on the FAA’s completion of NEPA Environmental Assessment for 31 proposed SAMP projects, finding no significant environmental impact. Covers regional growth driving air travel demand, project details, and next steps including Port-led environmental review and public engagement. -
2025-08-12ESA Webinar on recent NEPA policy changes
So many lemons. Maybe some lemonade? Environmental Science Associates (ESA) held a webinar today to provide an overview and meaning to the truly astounding number of policy changes affecting NEPA over the past two years. Although an ‘overview’, the NEPA process is so technical the video may be of interest only to specialists. However, we -
2025-07-07Significant Changes to the National Environmental Policy Act Affecting Airport Projects
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) has seen seismic changes in the past several months. On June 30, 2025, FAA rescinded its previous NEPA procedures and issued new Order 1050.1G, Environmental Impacts: Policies and Procedures, to address the recent rescission of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) NEPA regulations, recent Executive Orders, and a recent -
2025-07-01Regulatory Alert: DOT and FAA Release Updated NEPA Implementation Guidance; Orders Take Effect Immediately
July 1, 2025 Yesterday afternoon, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) released significant updates to the guidance documents that implement the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) for the department and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), including a long-awaited update to FAA Order 1050.1. A complete analysis of the new guidance documents from DOT and FAA