The Airport and the Environment
The Airport and the Environment Funding authorization for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) programs expired in FY2007's end. During this current process of reauthorization, methods for addressing every environmental impact associated with airport expansion as well as operations, are being debated. The issue is crucial to different stakeholders, especially those whose property and health values might be affected by these impacts (Greer, Rakas & Horvath, 2020). Such concerns of different community members, along with tribal, local, and state agencies regarding the environmental impact, have led to delays and cancellation of a few airport expansion projects. To address such issues, airports might be needed to implement projects which will minimize every environmental impact of all operations. In addition, a few such projects also qualify for federal funding (Santa et al., 2020). Funds might be used on projects to minimiz...