A federal appeals court has denied Tinicum Township's petition for a review of the $6.4 billion planned expansion of Philadelphia International Airport.
Tinicum, which adjoins the airport and would lose 72 homes to the expansion, wanted the project halted because of what it said was an inadequate environmental analysis by the Federal Aviation Administration.
But three judges of the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals, who heard arguments in the case, rejected that claim.
In the opinion written by Judge Anthony Scirica, the court said: "As the lead agency, the FAA has some latitude to determine the level of analytical detail necessary to support an informed decision and to adequately disclose air quality impacts to the public.
