US: Maryland governor orders lawsuit over airline noise

Maryland governor Larry Hogan Tuesday ordered the state's top legal official to sue a federal agency over new airline flight routes that he said have made many Maryland families "miserable in their own homes." A lawsuit against the FAA’s NextGen program should include routes for both Baltimore-Washington International and Reagan National, Hogan wrote to attorney general Brian Frosh. "This program has made many Maryland families miserable in their own homes with louder and more frequent flights which now rattle windows and doors," Hogan wrote. A majority of Maryland's population of about 6m lives around the two airports.<br/>