Noise Free America: A Coalition to Promote Quiet in the News
2022
- Who enforces noise complaints in upstate New York?
- U.S. Lawn Mower Market Report 2022-2027: Featuring Key Players Honda, Husqvarna, Deere & Co. & Others – ResearchAndMarkets.com
- The battle over noise takes a visual turn
- Leaf blowers: out of gas?
- Noise Free America
- ‘Insufferable’: Viral Video Reveals Woman’s Neighbor’s Reaction to Noise
- Excessive noise is an environmental issue
- Police should enforce noise ordinances | PennLive letters
- Guide to Modified Exhaust Systems (eBook) in 2022 – Pinterest
- International Noise Awareness Day (INAD), April 27, 2022
- Noise Pollution
- Readers letters: Celebrate Earth Day with a quieter world
2021
- Noise Free America TV Spot, ‘Everywhere’
- Ban the Blowers
- Enforce Noise Laws
- Las Cruces, New Mexico city council meeting
- Noise Pollution and the Impact on Health
- Union County (Pennsylvania) Citizens Against Noise Pollution
- Stowe: Lend an ear to noise pollution
- Enforcing local noise ordinances is first step
- FOX 29: Noise-Reduction Initiative Has West Chester on a Push to Shush
- Readers respond: Take action to cut the noise
- West Chester officials take action to crack down on excessive noise
- Noise Harmful, Barre Montpelier (Vermont) Times Augus
- Enforcing local noise ordinances is first step
- Quiet, Please
- Noise Harmful, Rutland (Vermont) Herald
- Noise Harmful, Barre Montpelier (Vermont) Times Augus
- Noise Free America releases Public Service Announcements
- Chief: Tricky to enforce noise ordinances
- Readers letters: Celebrate Earth Day with a quieter world
- Why Cities are Taking Action to Limit Loud and Polluting Lawn Care
- Celebrate Earth, and protect against noise pollution
- Noise pollution and the impact on health
- Hometown Radio 01/27/21 3p: Dr. Ted Rueter from Noise Free America
2020
- That Infernal Beeping, The Kingston Wire (Kingston, New York)
- NFA Director on KVEC-AM, San Luis Obispo, California.
- Owen Corning podcast, “Sounds Bites for Smart Buildings.”
- “Bellmawr, Brooklawn, Gloucester City, Westville Mayors Send Letter to Philadelphia Mayor Regarding ‘Boom Car’ Noise,” South Jersey Observer.
- “Altered Motorcycle Exhaust Systems Draw Attention,” Milton, Pennsylvania Standard-Journal.
- “Noise Is Air Pollution,” The Daily Item, Sunbury, Pennsylvania.
- Barcode bar, Cincinnati Facebook page.
- 5/20/20 WKOK Sunrise: Ted Rueter
- Stop Selby Gardens
- Selby Wins National “Noisy Dozen” Award
- Music repeating on a loop at work? It may affect mood, focus
- Noise Pollution In Urban Environments: Are Cities Getting Louder?
- Discover the planet’s last few ‘naturally quiet’ places
- Why Maryland neighbors are raising concerns over the noise from the ICC
2019
- Putting New York City on Mute with Pella Lifestyle Series Windows
- The End of Silence
- The Quiet Project – Making Noise About Noise
- Pella Puts New York City On Mute With a ‘Noisy’ Demo Of Its Windows And Doors
- Columbia is Trying to Make Manhattanville Construction Noise Bearable. Is it Working?
- Reduce Airplane Noise – Re-establish EPA Office of Noise Abatement & Control (ONAC)
- Defending peace and quiet
- Fireworks not an appropriate celebration
- The Terrible Racket of Gas-Powered Leaf Blowers – Enviro Close-Up #635
- Proposed motorcycle noise emission regulations – United States. Office of Noise Abatement and Control
- The Lisa Show, BYU Radio
- San Luis Obispo is too noisy
- Does your district have airplane noise issues?
- Why are hospitals so loud?
- Market Street solidarity noted as admirable
- San Luis Obispo recognized for excessive noise
- Sucker punch
- Why Maryland neighbors are raising concerns over the noise from the ICC
- Unholy Racket
- Time to press ‘mute’ on our noisy cities
- Town passes law regulating leaf blowers
2018
- Noise pollution is a bigger threat to your health than you may think, and Americans aren’t taking it seriously
- What is Noise Pollution?
- Ask The Sheriff: Motorcycle exhausts need to comply with noise laws
- Raleigh is too loud. It doesn’t have to be.
- Letters: Climate change fuels storms
- A Raleigh Woman’s Fight Against Noisy Leaf Blowers
- Local News Round-up
- New Hampshire Valley Post You Tube report, October 7, 2018.
- Noise exposure is becoming ‘the new secondhand smoke’
- How to Find Quiet in a Noisy World
- Leonard Lopate program, WBAI (Brooklyn/ NPR), August 9, 2018
- “Quiet Hero Award,” WNDU-TV, South Bend, Indiana, May 11, 2018, 5:00 pm news broadcast
- “Quiet Hero Award,” WNDU-TV, South Bend, Indiana, May 11, 2018, 11:00 pm news broadcast
- Local Officers Honored with Quiet Hero Award for Reducing Noise Pollution
- Elkhart police earn Quiet Hero Awards for reducing noise pollution
- Local Briefs: Lt. governor to speak in Goshen
- Noise Pollution Is Much Worse For You Than You Think
- Let’s Not Be Silent About Noise Pollution
- William Wallace: Loudness of America damages health
- Culture of Loudness
- The push to end noise pollution for better health
- City Noise Might Be Making You Sick
- The push for quiet in our cities
- Noise pollution is a bigger threat to your health than you may think, and Americans aren’t taking it seriously
2017
- “Reduce Noise: Improving the Nation’s Health,” Nursing Outlook.
- Noise Is The Next Great Public Health Crisis
- Noise Free America Putting An End To Motorcycle Rallies?
- Sound And Fury: The Noise Debate Continues
- How to Reclaim Peace and Quiet in a Noisy World
- Meet Ted Rueter of Noise Free America: A Coalition to Promote Quiet
- Royal Oak backs off strict noise limits after legal challenge to Dream Cruise tickets
- To the Editor: Bringing down the noise can curb the violence
- Dream Cruise cars steer into strict noise rule — and Royal Oak’s tickets
- Opinion: Noise Free America Fights Back
- More Silence Less Noise
- Town tries to reduce its landscaping footprint
- Mayor Jody Reinisch: Harley-Davidson welcome in Ryder, ND
- Letter: Ryder, N.D.: Motorcycle noise hell
- Thank the Boston Police for a quieter city – The Boston Globe
- Battle Creek’s $3.5-million downtown quiet zone wins award
- D.C. Police Motorcycle Detail and Illegal Noise (A Compromise w/Integrity?)
- N.J. town’s leaf blower ban earns ‘Quiet Hero’ award from coalition
- Letter to editor: Gas-powered leaf blower ban a healthy move by town
- Earth Day/noise pollution
- Burr ‘motorsports’ bill promotes noisy roads
- Letter: Noise-free senators
- The Urban Monk
2016
- 5 Environmental Toxins and How to Reduce Your Exposure
- Living Green: Leaf blowers — just say no
- Loud Motorcycles and Cars Ruin Parks
- Love us and Leaf us Alone!
- Shhh! License to Cruise chided for too much noise
- Fretz-Grigsby noise monitored, addressed
- Letter to the editor: “Bad Example”
- Piercingly Loud Walkie-Talkies
- Position statement: Harmful effects of environmental noise exposures
- Let’s Have a Little Quiet, Please
- No rational reason for motorcycle bill
- Re: Pipe Down
- Pipe Down
- Uniontown man seeks quieter bike rallies
- Lawsuit Filed Against Fort Smith, Fayetteville Leaders Regarding Noise At Motorcycle Rallies
- Lawsuit over bike rally noise filed against Fayetteville, Fort Smith
- Rickey Dale Holtclaw v. City of Fort Smith, Arkansas
- Praise for Quiet
- Noise Reduction Advocates Criticize Cops
- Help Is On the Way In the War Against Noisy Leaf Blowers
2015
- Lawn wars: leaf blower opponents seek peaceful resolution to neighborly feud
- In Brookline, dueling leaf blower articles to blow through Town Meeting
- Bills’ attempt to break Guinness World Record was ‘ridiculous,’ Noise Free America says
- Noise Rules: Keep it Down But Keep it Fair
- NFL is Contributing to a Dangerous Trend
- Groups Work to Reduce Noise
- Quiet Time on Marco Island
- Putting the brakes on loud motorcycles
- 6 ways to deal with noise pollution: You know excessive racket is bad for you, so do something about it.
- Deaf ears to Marco noise
- Seagoville Earns Dubious Noise Free America Award
- Leaf Blowers Hurt Kids
- Eastlake resident uses home surveillance to record noisy vehicles
- Susan Rocha on Los Angeles Church Noise
- Local Views: Do Stillwater Police Turn a Deaf Ear to ‘Plainly Excessive’ Motorcycle Noise?
- “I Don’t Want to Hear it”: Woman Fights to Stop Nearby Church Bells
- Police should cite motorcyclists for loud exhausts
- Letters to the Editor
- Letter: We’re drowning in noise pollution
- Nationwide Leaf Blower Ban
- Leaf Blower Hell
2014
- Police should cite noisy motorcycles
- Gas-Powered Leaf Blowers Illegal in Many Cities
- Ted Rueter: Residents need to get loud against Bikefest
- Motorcycles shouldn’t be given special treatment
- Noise Free America Putting An End To Motorcycle Rallies?
- Neighbors Claim Evanston Spin Studio Ignoring Noise Complaints
- Experience the ultimate in loud car stereos
- How to Live and Cope with Noise in Los Angeles
- Glendale exempts special events from noise limits
- Certificate of Appreciation
- Musikfest noise protest focuses on loud motorcycles flocking to the event
- Lehigh Valley motorcycle rally, and loud bikes, targeted by anti-noise campaign
- Anti-Noise Group Attacks Hog Rally
- Stuff: Noise is something you sometimes must endure
- Hot Springs Motorcycle Rally
- Anti-noise group critical of Hot Springs biker rally
- Fight Over Flight: The vicious debate over the Halsted heliport
- Bikers rule the roads, loudly
- Noise Free America
- Reduce scourge of noise
- Speak up against loud vehicles
- Chicago Helicopter Tour Co., River Watchdogs Clash as Plan is Delayed
- Chicago Helicopter Express: Sonic Assault on Chicago’s Near South Side
- Beep! A campaign to stop those annoying horn-based car alerts is making noise
2013
- Letters: Boom car issue should be taken seriously
- Letters: Loud car speakers can be combated
- Too much noise at Harbor Thunder?
- Presentation to Texarkana, Arkansas Board of Directors on Noise Enforcement
- Loud Pipes Stir Debate
- Presentation to the Texarkana, Arkansas Board of Directors
- Congressman Darrell Issa
- Loud noise a growing concern in Nashville
- Letter to Eastlake, Ohio police chief
- Pass boom car legislation
- Ask an Expert
- Washington DC Lobbying Trip
- Laughing Too Loudly Could Get You Arrested
- Damage of Loud Noise
- The Quest for Quiet in A Noisy World
- Continue Inspections
- Atlantic Yards Report
2012
- Anti-Noise Group Blows the Whistle on Keyless Entry Systems
- Grand jury indicts suspect on first-degree murder in Jacksonville teen’s shooting over loud music
- Deafened by Hogs: Motorcycle Noise and the Environment
- Noise Free America Lobbying Effort in North Carolina
- Editorial: “A Little Touchy, Are We?”
- Noise Free America rails against Erie, Roar on the Shore
- How to Quiet a Noisy Generator
- Roar on the Shore
- The Discovery Channel: A Mission to Restore the Roar
- Your Comments On: Some after-market motorcycle parts don’t meet safety or environmental standards, experts say
- Police issue warnings at motorcycle noise checkpoint
- As The Boom Car Business Booms, Prepare to go Insane: Bad Noise
- Nothing wrong with a little noise
- How the Americans tackle noise
- Fixing the US
- Time to pay attention to noise pollution
- Earth Day is time to pay attention to and address noise pollution
- Ted Rueter: Hold it down
- The Quest for Quiet in A Noisy World
- Next-door nemesis: How to resolve conflicts with a problematic neighbor without ruining your relationship
- Motorcycle Noise and Money
- A toast to 2011
2011
- U.S. and E.U. want quieter cars for different reasons
- Turning Adversity Into Action (PDF)
- Here’s our chance to help guide parkway’s future
- “Last Responders” Statement
- Parkway visitors weigh in on vision for roadway’s future
- Let’s Create a Movement to Keep the Peace and Quiet
- NY Fashion Week To Run On Cleaner Energy This Year
- Roseville man plans protest over car sound systems that disturb his peace
- Deafening Beirut noise problem poses health risk
- Not all bikers agree on modified exhaust
- Decibel debate: Do loud pipes save lives?
- First offender making noise about Watertown’s new noise ordinance
- Local train horns are loud, but legal
- Noise Free
- Protection From Noise Pollution With Home Security Systems
- Residents say loud ‘boom’ cars are audio assault
- Loud Noise Protest Today in Roseville
- Rally In Roseville Protests Boom Box Noise
- Booming Noise !!!
- Roseville man to hold anti-noise pollution event
- After hotel protest, D.C. needs to revise its noise laws
- Proud to be Loud
- Airports preparing for biggest version yet of 747
- Shush Please!
- Darrell Issa
- Darrell Issa: Sonic terrorist
- Editorial: Use property line standard for measuring noise levels
- Sounds of Summer: The pursuit of silence
- Police cracking down on noise from cars
2010
- Trying to take the bite out of hogs
- Sounds from Around: This week in sonic news
- New laws let bars go louder, later
- Reducing Boom Car Noise in Roseville, Michigan (Audio)
- Noise Remains Issue for Molly Spillane’s Neighbors
- Noise Free America Names Roseville Noisy Dozen
- Motorcycle noise debate: Truth and ignorance
- Noise is music to governor’s ears
- Rounds lands noise award for rally appearance
- Sturgis rally 2010: SD Guv rides and wins Noisy Dozen award
- Environmentalists take aim on Gov. Rounds, urge him to curb motorcycle noise
- Cathedral Park Master Plan Includes Whistle Free Zone
- Rooftop bands plan is dropped in Royal Oak
- Noise pollution can damage your health and shatter your peace of mind.
- Technology for a Quieter America
- In Keene, Activists Fight Motorcycle Corporations
- Ted Rueter
- Will County A.B.A.T.E. Newsletter
- Harley-Davidson News Vine
- Cheeseheads On Wheels
- Beer, Cheese and Bikes: Harley-Davidson may be named State Motorcycle of Wisconsin
- Too Noisy
- Move to make Harley-Davidson Wisconsin’s state motorcycle draws a complaint
- Living Loud: Why Cities Are Curbing Noise Pollution
- Ted Rueter: Honor Harley-Davidson after laws enforced
- Harley Riders, Like Kids, Need Attention
- Wisconsin State Journal editorial on Harley Noise
2009
- A Noise Free America
- Wisconsin Harley Bill Draws Ire
- Noise Free America Goes Hysterical Over Motorcycles
- Wisconsin Harley Davidson recognition proposal stalled for now
- Effort slows to name Harley official state motorcycle
- Harley Davidson symbol status gets hearing
- Bethlehem seeks a silent night
- Anti-noise group tries to shush bill honoring Harleys
- What?!?! I Can’t Hear You!!!!!
- Making A Pig of It
- Loud Pipes Equals Terrorism
- Not All Hopping On Harley-Davidson As State Motorcycle
- Move to make Harley Wisconsin’s state motorcycle draws a complaint
- Anti-noise group raises ruckus over Harley riders
- Noise Wars: Compulsory Media and Our Loss of Autonomy
- One Square Inch of Silence: One Man’s Search for Natural Silence in a Noisy World
- Stop the Music
- The Noise Free Enviro Show
- Presentation to Friends United for a Safe Environment
- As Niagara Falls: Tales of the strange but true
- Mitigation and control of noise
- Our town is loud and dangerous
- Congress: make leisure time quiet time again
- Boom cars: the constitutionality of nose thumbing
- Silent Treatment
- Some words about the all-American lawn and noise pollution
- Beep, Beep, Beep Means No Sleep
- Oshkosh-based Noise Free America wants a little quiet, please
- Let’s not let Charleston become Myrtle Beach
- Boom Car Boom: Hard-core Bass Heads Don’t Care How Fast Their Cars Are–Only How Loud
- Sound Health
2008
- Make Yourself Heard
- As the leaves fall, turn to a trusty old tool to clean up your yard
- Warren wins dubious award
- Keeping the noise down improves our quality of life
- Quiet, Please! How Noise Pollution Could Send You to the Hospital
- I Want you to be Quiet Please
- Anti-noise group slams city’s “boom car thugs”
- Sounds of the City
- Police and drivers get ready for Rumblers
- Complaints Land Baldwyn in Doghouse
- What the beep?
- Village looks to limit use of leaf blowers
- The battle is just beginning: Shhhhh!
- Neighbors of Black Hammock Adventures complain of noise
- Lowering the boom on boomers
- Bringing down the volume
- One thump too many
- New booming police siren rattling nerves
- Noise citations booming in Brevard
- Unlikely villain propels city’s new rank as ‘noisy’
- Higher fines for loud car music may go too far
- Stop That Noise!
- Christiansburg not shouting about award
- Lowering ‘boom’ of car stereos
- Tougher laws proposed for noise violators
2007
- Fort Worth gets notice for its noise
- A Boom Town, Fine; a BOOM-BOOM-BOOM Town? Shut Up!
- Colonie: Noisy dispute
- Vroom for Improvement
- Stop blaming others on noise issues
- Some person seems to be starting some sort of local anti-RC campaign
- Noise is noise, not part of history of the bike
- Why not nip biker noise in the tailpipe?
- If you can’t read this, turn down your volume.
- Biker festival to tone it down a notch
- Noise: It’s All in the Definition
- Noise Laws Could Muffle Motorcycle Sales
- Citizens Group Wants to Reduce Texarkana Noise
- Motorcycles must pipe down
- Noise from ‘boom cars’ has residents ready to rumble
- Washington wins Noisy Dozen award
- Noise hell?
- Random Friday Question: How Much Noise Is Too Much?
- Are we turning a deaf ear on dangers of noise pollution?
- Warren designated one of the ‘Noisy Dozen’
- Bleeping beep annoys like no other noise
- Noise Pollution: A Modern Plague
- Beloit prof wages war against noise
- How noisy is our town? Cap Times measures the din
- Noise Complaints on Fifth Avenue Sparks Debate
2006
- The Quest for Quiet
- Ordinance cleared up
- Turning down the volume: Commercial areas face increased scrutiny
- Boom lovers want to keep the volume up
- Rude Just Rude Not Just Rude
- Noisy motorcycles, cars continue to be problem
- New professor raises a clamor over quiet
- The Death of Quiet: Our World Is an Increasingly Noisy Place
- Hear no evil: Fight noise pollution with these steps toward silence
- No-ticket noise check draws curious biker crowd
- Reversing a Trend: Solutions to Noise Pollution
- Manteca Garage Bands Draw Ire
- Serenity now!
- Car-Free Days Bring Quiet to Communities, Advocates Say
- The Sounds and the Fury: The Grassroots Movement to Save our Eardrums
2005
- State Law Means Boom Cars Are Cruising for a $70 Ticket
- Volume of noise-law tickets increases: Opponents not quiet about restrictions
- Pumping Up the Car Volume: Hobbyists Boost the Stereo Wattage to the Ire of Their Neighbors (ABC 20/20 Segment)
- Boom-chicka-boom…
- The Sounds of Non-Silence
- Turn Up the Quiet: One guy’s quest for sonic bliss and a good night’s sleep
- Toning Down the Testosterone
- America The Noisy
- Decibel Hell: The Effects of Living in a Noisy World
2004
- The Sound and the Infuriated
- Elevators: Captive Viewers For Ads
- Letter Receives a roar of approval
- Your Wheels: Refusing to Go Quietly
- Cicadas Have No Monopoly on Big Noise
- Boom Time on Highways Rattles Drivers
- Remember the sound of silence?
- Making a Big Racket About Noise and Health
- Just Too Loud
- One Organization Wants America to be Noise Free
2003
- Noise Fighters Urge Crackdown
- City Wins ‘Award’ for Being Noisy
- Opposition Making Noise: Activists Focus on Car Audio & Security Issues
- What’s All That Racket? A ‘Potato’
- Noise Free America ‘Honors’ Top Leaf Blower Manufacturer
- Harley riders identify with distinctive rumble
- Woman Makes Noise Over ‘Audio Terrorists’
- Hails Quality of Life Measures
- An Award to Keep Quiet
- Sounding Off on Audio Assaults
- Darrell Issa: Car Alarm Congressman
- Noise Can Elevate Stress Hormones
- Noise Still a Problem for Car Audio
- Volume Control
- National Noise Pollution Expert Ted Rueter To Present Riley Institute Lecture Monday
- Davis May Never Hear the End of This One
- When the Noise Annoys
- Fear of Noise
- Abroad View
- Enough, Already: Drive-by Noise Polluters Have Town, Nation Upset
- Listen Up!
- Group Makes Outcry Over Noise Makers
- The PC Weenies Cartoon
- Noisy Politics
- Can You Turn That Down, Please?
- $500 room no guarantee of peaceful night’s sleep
- Shhh, Jesse
- Life is OK Despite These Claims to the Contrary
- Eh?
2002
- For Travelers, Silence is Golden
- Some Cities Seek the Sounds of Silence
- Boom! Boom!
- Dinwiddie Residents Opposed to Quarry
- Lovers of Quiet
- Noise Complaints Get More Bite from City
- It’s the Little Things that Count
- Bye-bye boom: Mayor looks to curb car stereo noise
- Anti-Noise Group Honked-Off at Noisy Hot Rods
- On Chasing Windmills and Loud Noisemakers
- Boston Audio Society
- A lot of people say they have heard enough
- Car-Audio Training Covers Installation, All the Bases
- Anti-noise group sounds off against city
- MERA Goes to SEMA, Expands into Legislation
- That Reverberant Boom Pleases You, Not Others
- The Sound and the Fury
- Community Tired of Loud Car Stereos is Targeting Retailers
- Attention Continues to Grow Around Kokomo Hum
- Anti-noise Group Targets Lincoln
- Can’t Hear You… It’s Too Noisy!!!
- Group Aims to Hush Noise
- Noise and Zen Meditation Don’t Mix in Bloomington
- Today’s Boom Cars Are Nothing If Not Acoustic Terrorism
- City Makes Noise List
- The Quiet Man
- Group Wants to Give Everyone an Earful About Noise
- Turn Down the Volume, Please
- Storm Was Just About Right; Eight Inches of ‘Dusting’ Brought Quiet
- City’s Noise Award Falls on Deaf Ears
2001