Smaller Airports May Endanger Health

I am a local North Westdale resident (West Los Angeles, Ca) and what shocks me is that the FAA doesn't care about the safety of the residents that live around the airport - their own policies indicate that Santa Monica Airport's (SMO) runways cannot be make long enough for the high power polluting jets. Where is the EPA when it comes to this pollution coming form the jets, you don't need good olfactory senses to know that you have to hold your breath and run away from the smell.

No where else in this country is there an airport like SMO, in such close proximity to homes and schools. Only when the laws were overturned in the mid 1990s when SMO decible levels were forcefully raised by the FAA from 85 decibles to 95 decibles was the way paved for these offensive and dangerous jets. The increase of jets has been exponential over the past decade, and the small community airport has been turned into something it was never designed to be. Big money, big names, and big business sacrifice the safety, health, and lives of thousands of men, women and children, all for their convenience.

Where is the oversight of the FAA and the EPA? Where is the press?

Charles of CA 4:26AM December 06, 2009