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New York townships sue FAA over airport noise
Photo credit: Asad Photo Maldives by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition and Abigail Harrison, Editor, Quiet Communities Two townships in New York State have filed a joint lawsuit against the Federal Aviation Administration alleging that over a million...
Loud restaurants may endanger hearing
Photo credit: Kyle Lui by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition CNET reports that loud restaurants may endanger the hearing of patrons and workers alike. This is not new information. Restaurant noise has been an issue for years. Research presented at the...
These communities pulled the plug on pickleball
Photo credit: City of Greenville, North Carolina, licensed under PDM 1.0 by Kathleen Romito, MD, member, Quiet Communities Scientific Advisory Council My dad always told us kids, "If you make a mistake, just fess up and move on." Recently, two communities finally...
Noise pollution threatens endangered whales
Photo credit: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration by Abigail Harrison, Editor, Quiet Communities The proliferation of oil and gas drilling in the Gulf Of Mexico will threaten an endangered whale species, an environmental group argued in the United States...
Cate Blanchett hates leaf blowers
Photo credit: Vlad Vasnetsov by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Architectural Digest reports on Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett’s decades-long fight against leaf blowers. Although the fight is against all leaf blowers, I suspect that gas-powered leaf blowers...
FCC seeks public comment on law governing noise
Photo credit: Lisa from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Federal Communication Commission announced that it is seeking public input on coming updates to rules related to the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Act. It has been...
Our noisy world is damaging our health
Photo credit: Josh Sorenson by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The BBC recently ran an article by health reporter James Gallagher covering the myriad ways in which excessive noise can damage our well-being. Gallagher was the reporter on the BBC News World...
Noise exposure, hearing loss and cognitive impairment
Photo credit: lil artsy by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The February 2025 issue of Frontiers in Public Health has an article by Chinese researchers reporting a correlation between noise exposure, occupational hearing loss and cognitive impairment. The...
The quiet power of a car-free neighborhood
Photo credit: Julia Boateng by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Bloomberg reporter David Zipper recently wrote about the quiet power of car-free neighborhoods, based on a recent experience he had in the German city of Leipzig. Zipper found himself there...
Electric construction equipment promises quiet
Photo credit: SevenStorm JUHASZIMRUS by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Last summer I hiked in Norway with my brothers. The trip ended in the northern city of Trondheim, where on my morning walk I saw electric heavy construction equipment. I had also seen...
New York City horn complaints down
Photo credit: Nout Gons by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition With the headline "Honking Complaints Plunge 69% Inside Congestion Pricing Zone," The City website in New York reports on an unintended side benefit of a government intervention meant to decrease...
What’s that racket?
Photo credit: Vecislavas Popa by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition One might think I’m writing about pickleball noise based on the title of this blog post, but I’m not. I’m writing about apartment noise complaints in New York City. As I have noted before, a...