Comment by jgalentine007

It's odd that this article popped up, as I have been recently thinking about noise pollution when walking my dog around the outside of my neighborhood. My unscientific guess is that 50% of vehicles that pass by are significantly louder than they ought to be, and my further guess is that at least half of those vehicles are louder because the driver desires it. In the grand scheme of the world's problems it is probably very low on the list - but I'm guessing it negatively affects people, animals and insects more than you would expect. Would it be so difficult for noise pollution to be regulated like emissions (in fact, couldn't it be done in the emissions process most states in the USA perform?)