SOS | SAVE OUR SKIES ALLIANCE
  • Background
    • FAQs
    • News + Updates
  • Affected Areas
    • Arapahoe County >
      • City of Aurora
      • City of Centennial
      • City of Cherry Hills Village
      • City of Englewood
      • City of Glendale
      • City of Greenwood Village
      • City of Littleton
      • City of Sheridan
    • City and County of Broomfield
    • Boulder County >
      • City of Boulder
      • City of Erie
      • City of Gunbarrel
      • City of Lafayette
      • City of Longmont
      • City of Louisville
      • Town of Superior
      • Unincorporated Boulder County
    • Jefferson County >
      • City of Arvada
      • City of Edgewater
      • City of Golden
      • City of Lakewood
      • City of Westminster
      • City of Wheat Ridge
  • Front Range Airports
    • Boulder Municipal Airport | BDU
    • Centennial Airport | APA
    • Colorado Springs Municipal Airport | COS
    • Denver International Airport | DIA
    • Erie Municipal Airport | EIK
    • Front Range Airport | CFO
    • Greely-Weld County Airport | GXY
    • Meadow Lake Airport | FLY
    • Northern Colorado Regional Airport | FNL
    • Parkland Estates Airpark
    • Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport | BJC
    • Van Aire Skyport |
    • Vance Brand Municipal Airport | LMO
  • Issues
    • Plane Crashes
    • Lead Exposure
    • Health Impacts
    • Noise Pollution
    • Economic Impact
    • Environmental Impact
    • Security Issues
    • Proposed Solutions
  • Press
    • Plane Crashes
    • Media Coverage
    • aviation perspectives
  • Contact
    • Get Involved

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Contact Your Local + National Representatives

Please see your local area page for information on how to contact your representatives.  A sample letter can be found below.

In 1976, EPA Administrator Russell Train delivered a speech, entitled “Aviation Noise: Let’s Get on with the Job,” noting that aviation noise was recognized as a national problem around 1940 and emphasizing the need for a safe, quiet, healthy air transport system. In 2021, the problem persists and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) continues to drag its feet.

Decades of scientific evidence show that aviation noise causes annoyance, stress, and sleep disruption and adversely affects cardiovascular health, mental health, learning, productivity, and quality of life (Münzel, 2018; Basner 2017). These outcomes impose substantial economic costs to our CCPSD for health care (Correia, 2013), lost productivity, and remedial learning. The relationship between noise and cardiovascular disease is well understood (Münzel,2020; Hahad, 2019; Münzel, 2018; Basner, 2014). Low frequency aviation noise is particularly hazardous (Alves, 2020).

Although there are Federal funds available to pay for noise mitigation, assistance in applying for these funds has not been offered to our local schools, businesses and residences within the impact radius of our local airports that would probably qualify.

We urge (insert your reps here) to support recent bills addressing some of these concerns and introduce new legislation as necessary. These bills include;

1) Safe and Quiet Skies Act (Rep. Case; HR 4547, 2019, 2021) to impose safety requirements on commercial air tour flights, and for other purposes
The Improving Helicopter Safety Act (Rep Maloney; HR 4880, 2019), a complementary bill to prohibit certain helicopter flights over major cities with high population densities;

2) Fairness in Airspace Includes Residents Act (Rep. Speier; HR 5109, 2019) to add as co-equal and secondary priorities to safety, the efficient use of the airspace, the reduction of noise and health impacts in the community, and the reduction of other environmental impacts of aviation;

3) Aircraft Noise Reduction Act (Rep. Joe Neguse; HR 5423, 2019 and 2017) to authorize owners or operators of general aviation airport sponsors to impose certain restrictions for the purpose of reducing noise; and

4) HR 712 (Rep. Lynch, 2021) for a report on health impacts of air traffic noise and pollution.

We urge Congress to work with the FAA and stimulate innovation by enforcing the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 and to enact additional legislation that provides incentives for responsible behavior by manufacturers. Above all, airport sponsors must be granted explicit authority to adopt noise regulations, including limits on the number, type, and timing of operations, to protect the health and well-being of their communities and hold operators responsible.

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Other Action Groups

This problem is not limited to the Denver Metro area. There are many like-minded groups across the country, all working to address the fundamental issues that allow this noise and lead pollution to be strewn across our shared public skies at any given moment, not to mention the danger associated with small aircraft and accidents. Below are just some of the groups working to address these issues.

Save Our Skies LA

Save Our Skies Santa Cruz County

Quiet Skies Over Gold Canyon

Sky Posse Palo Alto

Save Our Skies Vermont

 Studio City for Quiet Skies

Citizens Against Gillespie's Expansion & Low Flying Aircraft

Montgomery-Gibbs Environmental Coalition

Save Our Skies East Bay

National Quiet Skies Coalition 

Citizens for a Friendly Airport

N.O.I.S.E.

Brought to you by concerned citizens from all across the Front Range and beyond.
  • Background
    • FAQs
    • News + Updates
  • Affected Areas
    • Arapahoe County >
      • City of Aurora
      • City of Centennial
      • City of Cherry Hills Village
      • City of Englewood
      • City of Glendale
      • City of Greenwood Village
      • City of Littleton
      • City of Sheridan
    • City and County of Broomfield
    • Boulder County >
      • City of Boulder
      • City of Erie
      • City of Gunbarrel
      • City of Lafayette
      • City of Longmont
      • City of Louisville
      • Town of Superior
      • Unincorporated Boulder County
    • Jefferson County >
      • City of Arvada
      • City of Edgewater
      • City of Golden
      • City of Lakewood
      • City of Westminster
      • City of Wheat Ridge
  • Front Range Airports
    • Boulder Municipal Airport | BDU
    • Centennial Airport | APA
    • Colorado Springs Municipal Airport | COS
    • Denver International Airport | DIA
    • Erie Municipal Airport | EIK
    • Front Range Airport | CFO
    • Greely-Weld County Airport | GXY
    • Meadow Lake Airport | FLY
    • Northern Colorado Regional Airport | FNL
    • Parkland Estates Airpark
    • Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport | BJC
    • Van Aire Skyport |
    • Vance Brand Municipal Airport | LMO
  • Issues
    • Plane Crashes
    • Lead Exposure
    • Health Impacts
    • Noise Pollution
    • Economic Impact
    • Environmental Impact
    • Security Issues
    • Proposed Solutions
  • Press
    • Plane Crashes
    • Media Coverage
    • aviation perspectives
  • Contact
    • Get Involved