Stop the FAA from Moving Flights Over East Bay Communities
Stop the FAA from Moving Flights Over East Bay Communities
Started
April 5, 2021
Petition to
Victory
Why this petition matters
Started by East Bay Clean and Quiet Skies
- This fall the FAA plans to move a major Oakland Airport arrival path over the hearts of Richmond, El Cerrito, Albany, and the Berkeley Flats.
- Planes that were at one point dispersed over more than a 6-mile wide area will now funnel into an area around just half a mile wide.
- By the FAA's own admission, well more than twice as many people will be affected by airplane noise and pollution under this new change.
- Dozens of extremely loud, toxic waste emitting, low-altitude planes will be flying in this narrow path directly over our homes every day...and night.
- The FAA has failed to conduct the required noise tests, environmental impact and social equity studies, public outreach steps, and it has rejected alternative flight path proposals.
- The FAA has failed to consider that Richmond is 80% minority, and bears an excessive burden of toxic waste and spills from Chevron oil refinery, active harbors, coal trains, and major freeway and commuter corridors.
- We shouldn’t be forced to accept the negative impact that this FAA decision will have on our health, our children's health, and our quality of life.