Quote of the Week:  "Our children's health and future need to be protected from this horrifying killer," Denise Hepple, Chairman of a newly formed NATIONAL group, Mothers Against Aviation Pollution (MAAP)  fighting aviation

Aviation Conspiracy Newsletter #302................................................December 12, 2004 Past newsletters can be accessed at: http://pages.prodigy.net/rockaway/ACNewsmenu.htm  The PASSUR airport flight tracking system at http://www.passur.com/sites.htm (you must have Java installed to view it) Bill Mulcahy rockaway@prodigy.net 

Mothers Organize Against Aviation Pollution!!!

As Bill Sees It: (Editorial)  New "Mothers" Group Organize Against Aviation Pollution:  I received a email (read it below)  from O'Hare Airport noise activist, Jack Saporito, this week about a new anti-aviation pollution organization composed of mothers concerned about the effects of aviation on children. I'm glad to see that they are not only focusing on aviation noise as a pollutant but taking on the aviation air pollution issue. In their emails, Jack and the Mothers Against Airport Pollution (MAAP) referred to a recent study done by American and Chinese scientists that shows exposure to even tiny amounts of benzene is much more dangerous than once thought. Benezene is only ONE of the many toxic chemicals in aviation fuel that people living near airports get exposed to in higher concentrations that the rest of Americans. There is toluene, hexane, xylene, and lead. The MAAP press release (read below) went on to refer to a study on aviation pollution done last year that shows airports are higher emitters of this dangerous chemical than other major industrial sources!!! The federal government refuses to do their own studies of air pollution around airports just as they refuse to do noise studies. What they do is use phony airport studies that use FAA guidelines that mandate the use of phony computer estimates instead of actual noise monitoring. The FAA also excludes all other noise sources in their analysis guidelines to further hide the real noise impacts that communities around airports experience. This shows that when it comes to protecting American's health, aviation industry profits come first to the paid political stooges of the aviation industry.  Nitrous Oxide Emissions Around Airports Worse Than Power Plants And The EPA And FAA Are Doing NOTHING About It!!! According to a November 24th story state and local governments have given up with trying to get the EPA and FAA to control aircraft emissions after five years of negotiations.  Local communities fighting airport expansion should learn from this that the only way to deal with the federal government is by taking these corrupt bureaucRATS to court. State and local governments must DEMAND that the EPA protect the people who live near airports from aviation poisons which are especially harmful to children and the elderly. We must demand the media expose the criminality of the FAA, EPA and the airline industry. Jack Saporito Reports On Westchester Air Quality Conference: "Health Impacts From Transportation: Jack Saporito, Executive Director, The Alliance of Residents Concerning O'Hare, Inc thanked people (read release below) for their attendance at the Westchester Air Quality Conference on Nov. 5th. How about a detailed report Jack? I would like to read all the comments by the speakers at the meeting.

State And Local Air Pollution Control Officials Give Up On The EPA And FAA!!! WASHINGTON  Nov. 24 (Reuters) -- U.S. state and local air pollution control officials said on Tuesday they are pulling out of five-year-old talks to develop a voluntary program for reducing pollution from aircraft engines. A pollution-fighting deal with the aviation sector -- which is expected to see a doubling of nitrogen oxide, known as NOX emissions, by 2030 -- could not be reached, and the officials said they told the Environmental Protection Agency and the Federal Aviation Administration so on Monday. Major airports already have NOX emissions that are greater than those by large stationary sources, like refineries and power plants. Officials with the State and Territorial Air Pollution Program Administrators and the Association of Local Air Pollution Control Officials joined talks in 1999 to cut pollution from aircraft engines. "More than five years later, we are extremely disappointed that no progress was made concerning the primary objective of reducing aircraft emissions," the associations said in a joint letter to the EPA and FAA. Editor's Note: The EPA and FAA partners-in-crime to poison Americans? Does that surprise anyone. Where are all the outcries from so-called environmental groups like the Sierra Club and Audubum Society?  http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/11/24/environment.aviation.pollution.reut/ 

Aircraft Emissions Changing Upper Atmosphere Gases!!! GENEVA, Jun 8 (IPS) - Aircraft emissions are changing the concentration of gases in the upper atmosphere, contributing to climate change and increased global temperatures, says the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). Gases and particles given off by airplanes altered the concentration of greenhouse gases - such as carbon dioxide, ozone, and methane. The resultant condensation trails may increase the number of cirrus clouds; all of which contribute to climate change, the WMO explained. A report released here, ''Aviation and the Global Atmosphere,'' was prepared by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The study was limited to providing scientific assessment, not policy recommendations, clarified IPCC secretary, N. Sundararaman. The IPCC, an organisation created in 1988 by WMO and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), prepared the report together with the Scientific Assessment Panel to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer at the request of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO). http://www.climateark.org/articles/1999/airtrail.htm  Editor's Note: This story was printed in 1999. Since then the corrupt United Nations has been pressured by the international aviation polluters to scale back their efforts to curb aviation pollution. 

Scotland: Activists Want Noise Maps Drawn For Most Blighted Areas: Campaigners are calling on the Scottish Executive to draw up "noise maps" of the country's most blighted areas. The Noise Lobby Group is launching its new Scottish branch to highlight the problems of roads and flight paths. John Stewart, chair of the UK Noise Association, says ministers have a responsibility to draw up action plans to deal with the noisiest areas. The European Noise Directive requires all member states to deal with noise from traffic and construction sites. The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has begun "noise mapping" England and Wales, but the process is yet to be started in Scotland. Mr Stewart said: "Scotland is leading the way in dealing with noisy neighbours through the measures it has taken to combat anti-social behaviour. "The challenge now is to produce noise maps of road and aircraft noise and to come up with action plans to tackle the worst affected areas."  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4077169.stm  Editor's Note: Of course we in U.S. the federal government is PROHIBITED from making noise map as that was one of the purposes for removing the funding from the EPA's Office of Noise Abatement and Control (ONAC) in 1981.

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Important Aviation News Stories This Week

Child Experts Join Mothers Against Airport Evils

Contacts: Denise Hepple, 847-925-0396

Arline Bronzaft, 212-288-7532

Virginia Kucera, 847-394-0549

December 9, 2004

Child Experts Join Mothers Against Airport Evils

The newly formed Mothers Against Airport Pollution (MAAP) met to discuss a plan of action to protect the millions of American children, whose health is being harmed by airports and aircraft. The steering committee met last Thursday, December 2nd, discussing strategy to get the organization up and running.

"MAAP believes that it is important to get the word out to mothers and families, so they know there is a place to turn to. It is also important that they know many others are concerned about this too. Our children's health and future need to be protected from this horrifying killer," stated Denise Hepple, MAAP's Chairman.

Just one example of the harm that has been abhorrently understated by the federal government can be found in a study commissioned by eight states environmental agencies and overseen by the U.S. EPA ("Controlling Airport-Related Air Pollution"). That study found that the United Nations and U. S. government were grossly underreporting the amounts of deadly pollution coming from airports/aircraft.

For example: Combined aircraft-related amounts of benzene totaled 20 tons at Logan, Bradley, and Manchester airports in 1999! For comparison, total benzene emissions from the largest stationary sources in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire combined only totaled six tons in 1996! Benzene is a known human carcinogen (IARC 1982a,b.) Even more astoundingly, mega airports, such as Chicago's O'Hare, operate more aircraft annually than all of the three above-mentioned airports combined; thus, emitting even more harmful and even deadly pollution in heavily urban-populated areas.

A new study conducted by American and Chinese researchers shows that even tiny amounts of the unsafe chemical is even more dangerous than first believed. Benzene is only one of the hundreds of harmful chemicals released by airport operations. Another study found that O'Hare airport is responsible in whole or part for the deaths of hundreds of people each year, from cancer alone. Sadly, cancer is only one of the dozens of airport-poisoning diseases and it is not even the worst public health problem.

"Airports and aircraft are astronomical sources of toxic pollution, when one considers all of the components of an airport's related sources. And unlike cars, trucks, etc. who's harmful effects generally fall within hundreds of feet of a roadway, aircraft fly over our heads contaminating an area of 20 miles or more away from an airport," states Hepple.

Concerned about the serious pandemic public health effects airports cause to us and our children, some noteworthy people have already joined join the movement. Virginia Kucera, MA, an Illinois Arlington Heights Village Trustee and former Director of Division of Chapter Services for the American Academy of Pediatrics wants to protect children from this unparalleled harm.

Arline Bronzaft, Ph.D. a noted expert on children and noise effects has also joined the association. Among many accomplishments, she is a researcher, author, and lecturer on the harmful effects of noise to a child's health, education and development. Doctor Bronzaft is professor emeritus of psychology at Lehman College; she serves on Council on the Environment of New York City, consults to the League for Hard of Hearing, and advises throughout the United States and abroad.

Now that the states and municipalities have broken off five year talks with the federal government and air transportation industry, MAAP's believes that children's health and future must be staunchly guarded and MAAP must advise parents on how they can protect their children and families and give them someone they can turn to.

MAAP needs funding and volunteers; please call 630-415-3370 for more information.

MAAP plans to develop a website in the near future.

Denise Heppel, Chairman

Mothers Against Airport Pollution

POB 1702

Arlington Heights, IL 60006-1702

(630) 415-3370

Re: Westchester Air Quality Conference: "Health Impacts From Transportation"

I want to publicly thank everyone involved for helping make my presentation at Pace Environmental Law University (White Plains, NY) such a great success.

Since it is difficult to thank each one individually for their support, friendship and hospitality, I will thank their sponsoring organizations

instead -- The Federated Conservationists of Westchester County, the Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter, Sierra Club Lower Hudson Group, Environmental Defense, American Cancer Society, American Lung Association of NY State, Scenic Hudson and Pace Center for Environmental Legal Studies.

I especially must thank our Legislative Director, Staci-lee Sherwood, for her continued hard work and strong support.

Most of you know that airports and their aircraft are among the worst polluters in the world, causing significant damage not only with their

extraordinary contribution to climate change, but also, pandemic public health problems caused by their toxic pollution. It is not only the

large commercial aircraft and jet fuel that are problematic, but also, the leaded fuel gas from smaller planes like Gulf Streams and Cessna's that use 5 to 10 times the fuel per passenger than regional jets (50-60 passenger). It was important for us to document those problems to the public and legal community.

You also knew that it was most important to show that there are better solutions that can benefit most everyone, including airports and the air transportation industry, that will provide millions of new jobs and new businesses, while protecting public health and our environment. Those jobs and businesses will be eliminated if the airport expansion plan is able to continue.

With everyone's help, our conference presentation was so successful that we have been invited back in the spring to do a whole conference on aviation.

Again, thanks to all those involved!

Jack Saporito, President

The American Working Group for National Policy, Inc.

Executive Director, The Alliance of Residents Concerning O'Hare, Inc.

Board member, Mothers Against Airport Pollution

Past-president, US-Citizens Aviation Watch Association (1997-2002)

Jack Saporito, President

The American Working Group for National Policy, Inc.

Executive Director, The Alliance of Residents Concerning O'Hare, Inc.

Board member, Mothers Against Airport Pollution

Past-president, US-Citizens Aviation Watch Association (1997-2002)

POB 1702

Arlington Hts., IL 60006-1702

Phone: (847) 506-0670

Fax: (847) 506-0202

Email: <jack@areco.org>

www.areco.org