Photo credit: Alexandra May by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies The Quiet Coalition blog has cited many articles that deal with the adverse effects of aircraft noise on...
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In harms way
Photo credit: Myburgh Roux by Elaine Miller, Founder, Plane Sense 4 Long Island, Member, Quiet American Skies Thousands and thousands of planes fly over communities that have the great misfortune of living under horrendous NextGen flight paths. The “superhighways in...
Adults-only section on an airplane?
Photo credit: Daniel Frese by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Conde Nast Traveler reports that Corendon Airlines will launch an adults-only section on flights from Amsterdam to Curacao, for travelers age 16 and up. The purpose is to provide a quieter...
Knowledge is power
Photo credit: Maria Tyutina by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The statement “knowledge is power” is attributed to Sir Francis Bacon, but regardless of who first had this idea, I think it is true. As a physician, I have always adhered to the principles of...
Nurses exposed to aircraft noise report poor sleep quality
Photo credit: Cedric Fauntleroy by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies For almost 50 years, nearly 100,000 nurses have been included in an ongoing nationwide study looking at...
Seattle-area residents sue local port and major airlines for toxic pollution
Photo credit: SounderBruce, licensed by CC BY-SA 4.0 by Elaine Miller, Plane Sense 4 Long Island, Co-founder, Quiet American Skies, member. Justice is the cornerstone of a civilized society. True freedom lies in the tenet that justice will be rightly...
Loudoun County works to mitigate noise from Dulles Airport
Photo credit: Joe Ravi, licensed by CC-BY-SA 3.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies The headline of the article “FAA Still Silent on Dulles Airport Noise Concerns”...
Congresswoman Meng seeks funding for ONAC
Photo credit: Thomas Altfather Good. Licensed under GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Anti-noise groups, especially...
Current Canada fires bring back memories of air and noise pollution research
The East River and Downtown Brooklyn as seen from Lower Manhattan on June 7, 2023. Photo credit: SnowFire. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair,...