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AIRPORT POLLUTION - LEAD, NOISE & MORE |
Environmental Director - Gary Keller
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DID YOU KNOW... |
• Gillespie Field is in violation of Prop 65 - Why are there no signs to warn the public?
• LEAD was phased out of automobile gasoline, but it is still in aviation fuel and is now the largest source of LEAD emissions in the U.S.
• Children are at a high risk to lead poisoning.
• Lead is very dangerous to the male and female reproductive system. It is one of the causes of miscarriages.
• Gillespie Field, according to the most recent Environmental Protection Agency study, is the 13th worst polluting airports in the country out of 20,000 airports.
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A Geospatial Analysis of the Effects of Aviation Gasoline on Childhood Blood Lead Levels
Marie Lynn Miranda, Rebecca Anthopolos, and Douglas Hastings
Children's Environmental Health Initiative, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA |
Aviation gasoline, commonly referred to as avgas, is a leaded fuel used in small aircraft. Recent concern about the effects of lead emissions from planes has motivated the U.S. Environmental Protection to consider regulating leaded avgas. Click here to read the study
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At least 18 schools are within a 2 mile radius of Gillespie Field. Children living near small airports have higher levels of LEAD in their blood.
ARE YOU OR YOUR CHILDREN AT RISK? |
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Letters to the Editor: Flying isn’t a ‘hobby.’ It’s an environmental and quality-of-life menace
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To the editor: How nice that Silicon Beach tech entrepreneur Jessica Mah flies out of Santa Monica Airport as a “hobby” because she’s “so stressed out,” and piloting forces her to focus on “how not to kill myself.” Read more of the letters... |
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FAA Pauses Unleaded
Replacement Fuel
Testing
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Flight and some engine testing has been halted as the fuel industry
grapples with key questions.
In an update posted on the agency's website, the FAA said although two unleaded replacement fuels have been chosen for the Piston Aviation Fuels Initiative (PAFI), flight and some engine testing has been paused to assess the effects they will have on the larger GA fuel producing industry and the GA fleet. Read more... |
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Impact of Noise on Health:
The Divide between Policy and Science |
Noise has been defined as an unwanted, uncontrollable and unpredictable sound that disturbs and annoys an individual. With this definition, there has been a tendency to view noise as an annoyance and, secondly, as a sound that is deemed annoying to an individual on a personal level. Read more...
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Aircraft Noise Remains a Concern at Teterboro
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NBAA continues working with airport authority
to reduce aircraft noise
The people on and around the airport in Teterboro, New Jersey (KTEB)—one of the busiest general aviation airports in the nation at 302,000 takeoffs and landings—take aircraft noise very seriously. My introduction to the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey employees who keep an eye on arrivals and departures occurred when a noise office van pulled up next to the Hawker I was flying as we shut down at the FBO. The warning citation the Port Authority official handed me had time-stamped data that showed our arrivals a few minutes earlier had surpassed the limit set on the local noise sensor that guards Runway 6. I came to realize that another violation could cost me—and possibly the company—so I made sure I never again made the same mistake on future visits. Read more... |
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Airport noise regulations introduced into congress
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Congressman Joe Neguse on Thursday introduced legislation proposing that general aviation airports, such as [Oceanside Municipal Airport] Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport, Boulder Municipal Airport and Northern Colorado Regional Airport, be able to self-impose restrictions relating to noise concerns. Read more...
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Lead and the heart: an ancient metal's
contribution to modern disease |
Philip J Landrigan, March 12, 2018: Lead is an ancient poison; its toxicity has been recognised since at least the second century BCE, when the Greek physician Discorides observed that “lead makes the mind give way”. In the early 1700s, Ramazzini presented detailed descriptions of lead poisoning in painters and potters. Until the modern era, lead poisoning was a rare disease confined largely to populations exposed occupationally. This rarity changed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when lead mines opened in Australia, the western USA, and Zambia, and global production of lead rose to unprecedented levels. Lead was incorporated into a growing range of consumer products and spread far beyond the workplace. Read more...
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A New Concern for Montgomery-Gibbs Airport |
It has been brought to my attention that we have an issue with lead in aviation fuel which the E.P.A. has not enforced with a probable influence of Airline Industry lobbyists. A study by Marie Lynn Miranda of Duke University definitely states that the emissions from General Aviation airplanes are affecting children up to .6 miles of Regional Airports in Durham, N.C. Read more...
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A SAMPLING OF WHAT IS FLYING OVER YOUR HOMES & SCHOOLS:
POLLUTANTS & FREQUENT FLIGHTS |
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World’s largest study shows effects of long-term exposure to air pollution and traffic noise on blood pressure |
Long-term exposure to air pollution is linked to a greater incidence of high blood pressure, according to the largest study to investigate the effects of both air pollution and traffic noise by following over 41,000 people in five different countries for five to nine years. Read more... |
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Environmental Report Pushes For 100LL Replacements |
An environmental group that has been urging the EPA to regulate avgas in piston-powered aircraft released a new report this week on lead emissions in its ongoing campaign to remove 100LL from airport pumps. Read more...
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Coming Soon: Revolution in Aviation Fuel for General Aviation Aircraft |
Two flight engineers at the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Eagle Flight Research Center (EFRC) in Daytona Beach, Fla., are working to remove lead from aviation gasoline (avgas), thanks to a $993,000 award from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Read more... |
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UNLEADED AVIATION FUEL: BARRIERS TO ADOPTION IN CALIFORNIA |
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Santa Clara University Environmental Studies and Sciences Capstone Project 2017
Center for Environmental Health -
March 2017
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Conservation Groups Launch Legal Challenge to Cut Carbon Pollution from Aircraft |
Challenge cites EPA’s delay in addressing one of the fastest-growing sources of carbon pollution
San Francisco, CA — Conservation groups today filed a notice of intent to sue the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to reduce global warming pollution from aircraft engines. The notice, filed by the Center for Biological Diversity and Friends of the Earth, notes that EPA has failed to reduce this pollution even though a federal judge ruled nearly three years ago that it must address aviation’s fast-growing carbon emissions. Earthjustice is representing Friends of the Earth in the suit. Read more... |
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SMALL PLANES = LEAD POLLUTION |
Giving up the lead ghost
by Michaela Stith, oceans & vessels intern
When the Environmental Protection Agency completed its phaseout of leaded gasoline in 1996, the agency congratulated itself as having accomplished “one of the great environmental achievements of all time.” Blood lead levels dropped by 70 percent after lead was taken off the highways, so the myth that lead was dead easily proliferated across the country. Read more... |
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Burrowing owls given chance for San Diego County comeback
Struggling species reintroduced in wild after captive breeding
By Deborah Sullivan Brennan
At a field in Jamul, a little owl stood sentry beside a pile of rocks, surveying the landscape with luminous, yellow eyes.
The burrowing owl was guarding the tunnels that form its nesting space in the East County grasslands. But in the larger picture, it was standing its ground against threats of habitat loss and population decline. Read more...
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Lawsuit Filed to Save San Diego's Vanishing Burrowing Owls and Wetlands
Groups Urge City to Stop Poisoning, Destruction of Burrowing Owls at Airport |
SAN DIEGO, Calif.— A coalition of conservation and environmental justice groups filed a legal challenge today to the city of San Diego’s development proposal that would destroy sensitive wetland and burrowing owl habitat at the Brown Field Municipal Airport. The lawsuit follows outrage within the environmental community last year after a report surfaced documenting the destruction and poisoning of burrowing owl homes at the Brown Field airport. San Diego now proposes to develop industrial, commercial and aviation facilities at Brown Field in the rapidly expanding border area of Otay Mesa. Read more... |
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America's Leading Community Voice on Aviation Noise Issues
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For more information on jet air pollution click here
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Does the Continued Use of Lead in Aviation Fuel Endanger Public
Health and the Environment? Read more... |
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Leaded Fuel Is a Thing of the Past—Unless You Fly a Private
Plane Read more... |
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Aviation Fuel's Toxic Lead Emissions Draws Lawsuit Against
EPA Read more... |
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Sunset for Leaded Aviation Gasoline? Read more... |
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EPA Announces First Steps to Cut Carbon Pollution From
Aircraft Read more... |
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Aviation last major source of toxic lead in U.S. Read more... |
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Aircraft Read more... |
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Leaded Aviation Gasoline and Child Blood Lead Levels, with Marie
Lynn Miranda Read More... |
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Many Small Planes Still Run On Toxic Lead Fuel, And That Risks The Health Of Millions Read More... |
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