The city’s search for quiet

Published by ScienceLine

The article explores the health effects of noise pollution in New York City, where 90% of adults are exposed to harmful noise levels. Jamie Banks, founder and president of Quiet Communities, is quoted discussing the federal government's failure to enforce the 1972 Noise Control Act since the EPA's noise office shut down in 1982, as well as the difficulty of measuring the most bothersome low-frequency noise sources like airplanes, construction, and leaf blowers. Read the full article here.