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The neighborhood shook Monday around 3 a.m., dislodging wall paintings and jolting residents awake. A permitted pyrotechnics crew had just ignited a collection of fireworks, but to some, it felt ...
The Noise Pollution and Abatement Act of 1972 is a statute of the United States initiating a federal program of regulating noise pollution with the intent of protecting human health and minimizing annoyance of noise to the general public. [1] The Act established mechanisms of setting emission standards (noise regulation) for virtually every ...
Oct. 20—Noise complaints are not a big problem in Wilson County, according to the chief deputy at the sheriff's office, but more than half of the calls from last month originated from a single ...
The EPA coordinated all federal noise control activities through its Office of Noise Abatement and Control. The EPA phased out the office's funding in 1982 as part of a shift in federal noise control policy to transfer the primary responsibility of regulating noise to state and local governments. However, the Noise Control Act of 1972 and the ...
A 1973 report cites a university study of fifty cases of people complaining about a "low throbbing background noise" that others were unable to hear. The sound, always peaking between 30 and 40 Hz (hertz), was found to only be heard during cool weather with a light breeze, and often early in the morning. These noises were often confined to a 10 ...
The ordinance would ban outdoor noise and music between 10:30 p.m. and 7 a.m. With a permit from the city, merrymakers could make noise up to 85 decibels, which McKechnie likened to a truck ...
Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services, Inc., 528 U.S. 167 (2000), was a United States Supreme Court case that addressed the law regarding standing to sue and mootness.
Todrick Hall. Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images Todrick Hall is apologizing after coming under fire from his neighbors for noise and party complaints. Kay Kramon — who lives two doors down from the ...