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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 ...
A years-long feud over noise complaints between neighbours ended in a horrific shooting in an apartment building in Brooklyn, police say
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 ...
Relatives of the victim called Pass "psychotic" and said he constantly harassed them with noise complaints. "This man hates us with every bone in his body," Marie Delille, Mr Mathurin's wife, told ...
Pat and Al Schoeninger live a third of a mile from the Cranston Police Department's gun range, and they say the noise has become unbearable. They want the city to do something about it.
More than 1.8 million people claim noisy neighbours have made their life a misery and they cannot enjoy their own homes. The impact of noise on health is potentially a significant problem across the UK given that more than 17.5 million Britons (38%) have been disturbed by the inhabitants of neighbouring properties in the last two years.
With passage of the Noise Control Act of 1972, [5] demand for noise barrier design soared from a host of noise regulation spinoff. By the late 1970s, more than a dozen research groups in the U.S. were applying similar computer modeling technology and addressing at least 200 different locations for noise barriers each year.
Residents in parts of New Jersey and New York took to social media on Tuesday afternoon to report hearing a loud explosion, boom or shaking. Some speculated that it might have been an earthquake ...