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Loud Music at University of North Carolina Swimming Pool
I am member of the Meadowmont wellness facility in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Meadowmont is owned and operated by the University of North Carolina. Meadowmont is a beautiful facility. Unfortunately, however, there is frequently very loud music in the...
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It’s Not Just Bells Anymore
In many noise ordinances, it has been common practice to exempt certain types of noise from controls in the public interest. Such exemptions typically include emergency service work, emergency vehicles, farm equipment, special events with a permit … and...
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NHTSA finalizes quiet-car rule for hybrids, electrics, to take full effect in 2020.
It's bad enough that Congress directed NHTSA to come up with regulations to require auto manufactures to manufacture hybrird and EVs make to noise at low speeds.
But this request by auto manufactures reported in the article is even more very troubling.
"A separate request by automakers that they be allowed the vary the noises legally emitted by their cars—most likely to adopt distinctive sounds that aligned with their brands—will be considered by the agency."
Hey NHTSA! Don't even consider that for a moment. The last thing the motor vehicle noise pollution suffering public needs is cars emitting "distinctive sounds" chosen by auto manufactures and perhaps by their customers as a "customization" feature that allegedly aligns with the brands of cars they make and the tastes of their customers. Talk about opening a Pandora's box! That lid needs to remain shut.
NHTSA finalizes quiet-car rule for hybrids, electrics, to take full effect in 2020
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The idea of adding noise-makers to vehicles that are "too quiet" didn't exist until the first hybrid-electric cars hit the market in 2000. Within a few years, however, organizations representing the b...Attention all of you who support the mission of Noise Free America.
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Noise Free America: A Coalition to Promote Quiet
Noise Free America is a nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting noise pollution.Here is a very good motorcycle noise story from Michigan. It also refers to motor vehicle noise enforcement in Elkhart Indiana.
The story points out that many motorcycle owners illegally modify their motorcycles by installing illegal after market exhaust systems that increase their exhaust noise emissions and install air pollution emission control defeat devices that increase their motorcycle's air pollution emissions, all in stark violation of federal and state laws.
The story is especially important in that Vince Consiglio, president of Michigan's chapter of ABATE, the state's so-called motorcycle rights organization, openly admits that ABATE condones the illegal act of tampering many motorcycle owners commit to render their motorcycles excessively loud and air polluting and lobbies against the enforcement of those tampering prohibitions.
ABATE of Michigan also seeks, with the help of ABATE's federal lobbying arm, the Motorcycle Riders Foundation (MRF), to have the wish that many bikers have granted, that wish being to be free of EPA restrictions on noise and air pollution emission levels. In other words, to be free to do as they please and render their motorcycles as loud and air polluting as they please. Mr. Consiglio and the various ABATE chapters have coined a slogan expressing that wish "Let those who ride decide".
Mr. Consiglio also graced us with other slogans that expressed the desires and mindset of those his organization represents and advocate for, such as "Proud to be Loud", "We want people to hear us","Leaving plumes of sound is part of the thrill". He said "The EPA is unfairly keeping motorcyclists from the full enjoyment of their sport".
What do think, everybody? It is "unfair" to limit the noise and air pollution emissions from motorcycles and enforce the exhaust and emission control devices tampering prohibitions? It is "unfair" not to let those who ride decide to do as they please even though what pleases them violates the law, harms and annoys you and degrades your quality of life?
This kind of unlawful nonsense must be put to a stop in North Carolina and you must lobby the state to do that. Contact us if your are willing to do what is necessary to make that happen.