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NATIONAL PARKS: HAWAIIANS, FEDERAL WORKER GROUP SUE OVER AIR TOUR NOISE

by Susan Sargent | October 5, 2017
From: Greenwire “Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and Hawaii Island Coalition Malama Pono want FAA to draft plans or voluntary agreements to govern air tours in seven parks by two years from now.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...

GROUPS SUE FOR NOISE POLLUTION ABOVE NATIONAL PARKS, INCLUDING ONE IN UTAH

From: The Salt Lake Tribune “The lawsuit filed by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and Hawaii Island Coalition Malama Pono asks the court to order the FAA to draft either air tour plans or voluntary agreements governing air tours for seven parks within two years.” ...

INTERIOR: REPUBLICANS PRESS FOR ZINKE TRAVEL DETAILS

From: Greenwire “The group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility today released documents that show Zinke used a National Park Service boat to take him, family members and two fishermen for a three-hour tour of the Channel Islands National Park after a Junior Ranger swearing ...

EPA PROPOSAL TO RESCIND CLEAN WATER RULE DRAWS PRAISE, FIRE

From: Law 360 “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers’ proposal to rescind the Obama-era Clean Water Rule drew nearly 200,000 responses, with many business and agricultural groups strongly supporting the elimination of a rule they criticized as an ...

ENVIROS HIT FAA WITH SUIT OVER AIR TOURS IN NATIONAL PARKS

From: Law 360 “Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and the Hawaii Island Coalition Malama Pono are calling on the FAA to develop an air tour management plan or voluntary agreements to protect seven parks allegedly impaired by overflights, naming in their suit Bryce Canyon ...

GROUPS SUE FAA TO SEEK AIR TOUR PLANS FOR NATIONAL PARKS

From: Miami Herald “The lawsuit filed by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and Hawaii Island Coalition Malama Pono asks the court to order the FAA to draft either air tour plans or voluntary agreements governing air tours for seven parks within two years.” Read ...
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