ENVIRONMENT by JAN ELLEN SPIEGEL. APRIL 29, 2019 VIEW AS “CLEAN READ” (ctmirror.org April 29,2019) Since 1931, Tweed New Haven Airport has sat on a spit of what was once salt marsh and wetlands straddling the New Haven-East Haven border. It is wedged between New Haven Harbor where the Quinnipiac River empties, the Farm River mouth separating …
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EAC hosts Tweed expansion dissident
(Yale Daily News, 3/7/19) The battle against increased air traffic has been waged by New Haven environmental activists for a decade. Due to recent legislative efforts at the city and state level, this battle seems increasingly dire. Full story here.
From planes to vans, Amazon is rapidly expanding into shipping
FRI, FEB 15 20198:00 AM ESTKatie Schoolov Amazon aims to compete with FedEx and UPS in the logistics and shipping industry. That’s what analysts told CNBC after Amazon Air recently expanded to 50 planes and announced it will open a $1.5 billion air hub in Northern Kentucky in 2021. Amazon is handling up to 26% …
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Communities Surrounding Logan Airport Exposed To Harmful Air Pollution, Research Finds
By Craig LeMoult September 24, 2019 (wgbh.org September 24, 2019) This is the third story in a three-part series on transportation-related air pollution in the Boston area. Read Part 1 here and Part 2 here. Research from several Boston-area universities shows a kind of air pollution that can lead to heart attacks and strokes is contaminating homes and schools …
Carbon storage in US wetlands
A. M. Nahlik & M. S. Fennessy Nature Communications volume 7, Article number: 13835 (2016) (nature.com December 13, 2016) Abstract Wetland soils contain some of the highest stores of soil carbon in the biosphere. However, there is little understanding of the quantity and distribution of carbon stored in our remaining wetlands or of the potential effects of human disturbance on these …
Impacts of Aviation: Water Pollution
Muni M Nov, 25 2014 (prezi.com, November 25, 2014) Why Planes are not Innocent Bad Effects caused by GUILTY Airplanes De-Icing definition What does this do to living things? De-icing is defined as removal of snow, ice or frost from a surface (in our instance, plane wings). Anti-icing is understood to be the application of …
East Haven ‘in the black’ after selling land to Tweed (videos)
Michael Bellmore, Special to the Register. July 14, 2011 ( nhregister.com July 14, 2011) EAST HAVEN — Mayor April Capone announced Thursday that the Tweed New Haven Airport Authority cut East Haven a $1.5 million check in exchange for 8.9 acres of marshland. Read Full Article here.
Plane Pollution
David Holzman December 1997, Environmental Health Perspectives In regulating aircraft and airports, severalcompelling interests compete: safety, international commerce, and environmentalquality. Of these, safety issues receive perhaps most of the attention, garnering largeheadlines in the wake of airplane accidents.But the issue of the effect of airports on theenvironment and human health has heatedup in recent years …