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What does NPC stand for?
NPC stands for Noise Pollution Clearinghouse
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Samples in periodicals archive:
Sources: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, Environmental Protection Agency, Noise Pollution Clearinghouse.
While many anti-noise groups mainly focus on health and psychological issues, the Noise Pollution Clearinghouse (NPC) focuses on civil liberties.
Les Blomberg, who directs the nonprofit Noise Pollution Clearinghouse, refers to unwanted noise as aural litter or audible trash--"That is how people experience community noise: as someone else's garbage thrown into their space," he says.
The Noise Pollution Clearinghouse NPC), a nonprofit agency providing access to a variety of materials on controlling noise pollution, has chosen lawn equipment as one of its primary focuses.