If you read it though you see it’s about low level flight - ie the noise from the planes.
Not everything environmental is CO2.
If they had used CO2 as the reason I’m pretty sure any reasonable court would have overturned it.
The SM city council is trying to shut down the airport altogether.
This is a very good policy. The last thing CA needs right now is more jobs. Kudos to the People’s Republic of Santa Monica.
For thirteen years late in the 20th Century, we lived just two blocks from the end of the takeoff runway for SM Airport. Every two years we had a small plane crash within a block or three from our suburban home. It began to seem like life in Beirut.
Like my neighbors (who ranged from both Left to Right), we came to conclude that the airport is not well-situated for these kinds of operations. It’s closely surrounded by densely developed single family homes. Better to shift its entire general aviation load elsewhere. The land would be even more productive if used for other commercial applications.
The Hollywood celebs who are the facility’s most profitable patrons may be inconvenienced by its departure; in that event, my heart bleeds for them.