Trenton Threatened Skies, municipalities, communities, neighborhoods businesses and individuals representing over 40,000 residents, filed a Petition for Review in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit challenging the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) decision to allow the expansion of the terminal at Trenton Mercer International Airport
The FAA Environmental Assessment (EA) of the project failed to account for the substantial increase in aircraft operations that expanding the terminal from two gates to four gates will allow.
Dr. Robin R. Karpf of Trenton Threatened Skies stated “We are asking the court to review the FAA’s approval of Mercer County politicians and official’s disingenuous premise that this massive expansion project, along with related expansion projects at the airport, will have no significant impact on the surrounding region.
”Moreover, not only has the airport failed to secure the required stormwater permit and been out of environmental compliance for the last 14 years, the FAA has failed to adequately address the issue of PFAS contamination spread created by the construction of the expanded terminal.”
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