Photo credit: Ivan Babydov by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies This New York Times article on the noise emitted by computers mining Bitcoin opens with a security guard...
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Conservation groups sue Air Force to protect wilderness
Photo credit: NASA/NASA Image and Video Library by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Military.com reports that conservation groups in Oregon, Nevada and Idaho are suing the U.S. Air Force to ban low-altitude F-15 flights over the Owyhee Wilderness Area. The...
Returning astronaut looks forward to quiet
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Spaceflight Now, among other media outlets, reported on astronaut Frank Rubio's recent return to earth after 371 days in space. That’s the longest duration space flight for an American astronaut, and...
Modified motorcycle exhaust: dirty, noisy and illegal
Photo credit: Pepe Tapia by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I just came across reports of a 2022 lawsuit filed in Utah by a physician group against local Harley-Davidson motorcycle dealers and the Harley-Davidson company. Utah Physicians for a Healthy...
Brooklyn Bridge Park residents seek quieter public bathrooms
Photo credit: Airam Dato-on by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Our readers may find this post unusual and interesting. The City reported last week that a couple living in...
3M settles military earbud lawsuit
Photo credit: Staff Sgt. Jason Hull, Public Domain / United States Department of Defense by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition CNN, among other media outlets, reported at the end of August that 3M, a multinational industry and consumer good conglomerate,...
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...
Pickleball noise is disruptive to nearby residents
Photo credit: TheVillagesFL, licensed by CC BY-SA 4.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies For nearly a decade and a half, Mary McKee loved the tranquility her home...
Quiet victory: Garage bell hell silenced
Photo credit: Enric Cruz López by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies In an earlier post, readers were told about a lawsuit brought by a resident in a St. Petersburg...