JAPAN
More than 2,800 residents living near the us Atsugi Naval Station, used jointly by the us Navy and the Self-Defence Forces, in Kanagawa prefacture near Yokohama have filed a lawsuit against the government seeking compensation for noise pollution. The lawsuit, third since 1976 and the largest-ever lodged against the government, plans to demand a monthly amount of us $184 per person, totalling about us $18 million.
The residents also plan to ask the government to pay the monthly compensation retroactively for upto three years. At Astugi, noise-levels exceed 75 on the "weighted scale.' The lawsuit seeks to expand the area the residents complain is polluted with noise "beyond tolerance' levels by redu-cing the benchmark figure in the weighted scale from 80 to 75.
Related Content
- Global LNG outlook 2024-2028
- Used heavy- duty vehicles and the environment: a global overview of used heavy-duty vehicles- flow, scale and regulation
- Overcoming the energy trilemma: secure and inclusive transitions
- Pulling the plug on fossils in power
- Clean electricity within a generation: Paris-aligned benchmarks for the power sector
- Accelerating the implementation of India's national green hydrogen mission: assessment of standards to enable the ecosystem