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2021 City Council Ward 15 special-election candidate Doris De Los Santos on noise
”Often, city residents are expected to ‘put up’ with, or tolerate, noise nuisances simply because they choose to live in a city. This position is flawed in two ways: It assumes that 1) everyone who does in fact live in a city can afford to live elsewhere, but chooses not to, and 2) noise nuisances … Read more
Environmentalists used to fight noise
Environmentalists used to fight noise Sierra Club policy resolution on noise pollution adopted by the Board of Directors in 1970
Globe article: Noise report-cards for Boston neighborhoods
Noise Report Cards for Boston Neighborhoods By Kevin Hartnett (Boston Globe, Oct. 23, 2016) — Noise is an inconvenience of city living. Could it also hurt your health? Erica Walker, a doctoral student at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, set out to help answer that question. For a year, she measured noise … Read more