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Lax FAA Oversight Allowed Southwest to Put Millions of Passengers at Risk: Washington Post, Feb. 11, 2020
The Federal Aviation Administration allowed Southwest Airlines to put millions of passengers at risk by letting the airline operate planes that did not meet U.S. aviation standards and by failing to provide its own inspectors with the training needed to ensure the highest degree of safety, according to a report released Tuesday by the Department of Transportation’s inspector general.
Mass General Study Appears to Have Found Brain Link Between Noise and Cardiovascular Disease; Boston.com, Dec. 3, 2019
If you needed another reason to grumble about the screeching T under your office, the noisy traffic on your commute, or those flights from Logan Airport whizzing over your house, you have one.
A recent study identifies a mechanism that appears to play a “significant role” in how long-term noise exposure leads to heart disease, inflammation, and blood vessel damage.
Research on cardiovascular disease and the link with noise; Open Access Government, Mar. 12, 2019
Research on cardiovascular disease and the link with noise
Letters to the Editor: The unheard-of noise pollution from the FAA’s wasteful NextGen program (Washington Post, March 12, 2018)
“We’re in active denial” about the effects of noise, said Rick Neitzel, director of environmental health policy at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. “We’re far, far behind what Europe is doing.”
