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Chronic Noise Pollution - Advice from Gilroy, California. Includes list of links covering major issues.
Noise Pollution Clearinghouse - An information resource with online database. Campaigns on specific noise issues and distributes "Quiet Zone" newsletter. Offers CD demonstrating worst noise offenders. Often quoted by major media.
Scarsdale Anti-Noise Patrol - Campaign to enforce Scarsdale's summer ban of gas-powered leaf blowers, with noise pollution links, photo galleries, and hearing protection recommendations.
EPA History - Noise - U.S. EPA Documents Concerning Noise Pollution
Airport Noise Regulations, Buchanan Field Airport, Contra Costa County - Provides information about the noise ordinance and noise abatement procedures pilots are required to follow.
Noise Abatement Society - The Noise Abatement Society (NAS) promotes ways to combat antisocial noise. The Society's annual John Connell Awards recognize local iniatives to address noise complaints.
Noise and Traffic - Information on effects of noise on people, noise regulations, standards and control of noise production by vehicles, machinery etc.
Noise Off - Coalition Against Noise Pollution
No Boom Cars - Louisville KY - Boom Car noise pollution in Louisville is out of control, we demand enforcement of the new noise ordinance
Yahoo! Groups: Rochester Soundscape Society - Dedicated to reducing noise in Monroe County, NY, and provides an open forum for discussion of noise pollution issues in the greater Rochester area.

Noise pollution - Noise pollution (or environmental noise in technical venues) is displeasing human or machine created sound that disrupts the environment. The dominant form of noise pollution is from transportation sources, principally motor vehicles.
Noise Control Act - The Noise Pollution and Abatement Act of 1972 (or Noise Control Act of 1972, 92-574, 86 Stat. 1234, - ) is a statute of the United States initiating a federal program of regulating noise pollution with the intent of protecting human health and minimizing annoyance of noise to the general public.
Noise (acoustic) - Acoustic noise, is any sound in the acoustic domain, both wanted (music, bird song, amplified speech, etc) and unwanted. Unwanted noise includes noise pollution in an otherwise quiet environment, unwanted noise on audio systems, appliance noise, factory noise, crowd noise and so on.
Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution - "Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution" is an AC/DC song appearing as the tenth track on their 1980 successful album, Back in Black. This song was made as a filler by the Youngs as the rest of the band went off drinking.
Noise - In common use the word noise means unwanted sound or noise pollution. In electronics noise can refer to the electronic signal corresponding to acoustic noise (in an audio system) or the electronic signal corresponding to the (visual) noise commonly seen as 'snow' on a degraded television or video image.