I’ve attended briefings by FAA officials, visited the control tower at Logan Airport, and learned a great deal about what the FAA is doing to address noise control concerns.
Environment
airplane noise, carbon and climate, cell towers, flooding, land use issues, parks and recreation, pfas, waste/hazards, water issues
“Know Your Zone” Hurricane Awareness Campaign
In the event that the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency issues a hurricane evacuation order, these are the evacuation zones within Will’s Senate district.
Computations in Airplane Noise Study
This post offers some background related to the conversation about airplane noise in Belmont and Watertown including some downloadable data.
This post is basically an exploration of the data. But it does yield a bottom line insight: flights departing from runway 33L are very concentrated over two narrow corridors in Belmont and Watertown, but spreading them out by as much as 1000 meters in either direction would not make a detectable difference in experienced noise levels.
Power Plant Regulation
Roger Colton asks if Will can identify steps that he plans to take in support of the EPA’s recent proposed rule to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from existing power plants.
What’s with H.4185 (“an act relative to net metering and solar power”)?
As the session winds down, there is a lot of confusion in the solar energy market — major regulatory policies are in flux.
Study of Logan Noise in Belmont
Massport has installed a noise monitor at a home in Belmont in March, and here is a Belmont Noise Monitoring Report that presents the results of those measurements–including an analysis of which noise events correlate with plane overflights (according to radar).