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Becoming attuned to the city soundscape
Photo credit: Daria Shevtsova from Pexels by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, and Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition Feargus O’Sullivan, Bloomberg, like many other writers this past year and a half, has become more in tune to the sounds around...
It’s National Protect Your Hearing Month
by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition October is National Protect Your Hearing Month. And just in time, the adaptation of a paper published during the summer in Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics with Jan Mayes was published in the October issue of The...
Pre-emption of State Small Engine Regulation under the Clean Air Act
Rick Reibstein provides some context for thinking about the issue of pre-emption of state small engine regulation under the Clean Air Act.
The Right to Quiet: The Once and Future Recognition that the Right Exists
The persistence of noise in our lives and the failure of the federal government to match that persistence with preventive efforts may make some question whether there is such a thing as a right to quiet. Rick Reibstein’s paper discusses ways of thinking about the right to quiet.
City officials in Milton Keynes, UK demand noisy fireworks ban
by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Milton Keynes is a small city about 50 miles north of London with a population of 230,000 in its urban area. As reported in The MKCitizen, city officials will be introducing legislation to ban noisy fireworks. The reason?...
NYC councilman introduces noise camera bill
Photo credit: New York City Department of Transportation licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, and Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition In an earlier blog I wrote about the New York State Legislature considering a bill to...
There is nothing temporary about temporary threshold shift
This image by AlexChirkin has been dedicated to the public domain by Jan L. Mayes, MSc, Audiologist This Healthy Hearing article on temporary threshold shift or muffled hearing after noise exposure varies between strong statements and caveats. I disagree with the...
Bangladesh declares 3 areas as silent zones
Photo credit: Bryon Lippincott licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The United News of Bangladesh reports that the Department of Environment there has designated three areas there as silent zones. Two are around hospitals and...
Birds thrived in cities during lockdown
Photo credit: JULIO NERY from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition We have covered how many animal species--on land, in the air, and in the water--responded to the reduction in anthropogenic noise caused by the COVID-19 lockdowns, but we are writing...
GAO says FAA needs better noise impact metrics
Photo credit: Matheus Cenali from Pexels by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, and Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition The GAO has found that metrics employed by the FAA to assess noise impacts on residents subjected to overhead flights “does not...
A photographer’s search for silence
Photo credit: Matteo Badini from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I was an environmentalist long before I became a noise activist, and am a member and supporter of a number of environmental organizations, including The Nature Conservancy. Like The...
NYC state senator hopes next mayor takes on excessive noise
Photo credit: Joe Shlabotnik licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, and Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition During this summer season, New York City residents have been calling local representatives, the media, and 311 to...