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”...
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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...
The City of Seville, Spain now requires Airbnbs to install noise meters
Photo credit: Emilio Sánchez by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Express, a British digital news site, reports that the city of Seville, Spain passed a new law requiring noise meters to be installed in all short-term rental apartments. In some...
Restaurant chains, ranked quietest to loudest
Photo credit: Ksenia Chernaya by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Our friends at SoundPrint recently published a list of chain restaurants ranked from quietest to loudest. The analysis was based on more than 3,300 individual sound reports from...
Sweden close to being smoke-free
Photo credit: Boris Hamer by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition CBS News reports that Sweden is close to becoming the world’s first smoke-free country. On May 31, World No Tobacco Day, it was reported that only 6.9% of Swedes age 15 and older were daily...
Brits obsessed with noise complaints
Photo credit: Murad Murat by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies That noise complaints, including those made against neighbors, have increased over the past years in the UK...
More calls to crack down on noisy cars
Photo credit: Khunkorn Laowisit by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies As a long-term researcher and writer on the adverse impacts of noise on our health and well-being and...
Improving older adults’ hearing helps their cognitive functioning
Photo credit: Sofia Shultz by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I have written about the relationship between hearing loss and cognitive impairment before and reported on evidence that strongly suggests that improving hearing for older people may delay or...
Aviation noise and emissions presentation now available
Photo credit: Allan So by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Quiet Coalition’s parent organization, Quiet Communities, Inc., has announced the availability of a new presentation, Aircraft Noise and Emissions: Health and Environmental Impacts: This...