NEW! Noise Project deploys initial sound monitor in PVD
Our response to proposed PVD leafblower regulations
NY Times: “Is Rhode Island’s Capital Too Loud?” [spoiler]
View graphs of Community Noise Survey data
“Noise is inevitable in a big city; harmful noise is not”
— “It’s important to distinguish between sound that populations [normally] produce versus the unnecessary noise we’re willing to deal with or accept.”
NY Times: “Noise Can Take Years Off Your Life”
“Noise pollution is worst in poor / minority neighbor-hoods in segregated cities”
Health Effects of Noise infosheet
ProJo: 5,500 noise complaints in 2022, but only 19 citations
2024 RI Assembly candidate survey results / endorsements
U of Michigan: ~40% of RI residents exposed to unsafe noise, 3rd highest in U.S.
Response to Daily Herald article on noise cameras
PVD City Council seeks to prevent noise — from East PVD
Mayor Smiley on noise in Providence
West Elmwood Health Equity Zone (02907 HEZ) report
Goncalves Quality-of-Life Plan: ‘De-normalize’ noise in PVD
Brown U. transitions to sustainable landscaping
Our response to the Brown Daily Herald op-ed on noise
Noise Project letter to Mayor Elorza
Letter to City Council on License Board chair vote
PVD City Council Approves Resolution Proposing Study of Noise
2022 Providence Primary Election Endorsements
City Council proposes noise amendments for leafblowers
RI state senators propose 2023 ban on leafblower sales
“The City that Endangers the People It’s Supposed to Protect”
Statement on noise by City Council candidate Doris De Los Santos, Ward 15
Elorza admin to City Council: “Say ‘no’ to leafblowers”
RI PBS: “Noise pollution has gotten worse, and little has been done to address it”
Noise levels in Providence are driving people out of the city