A group seeking to halt the siting of a squadron of F-35 fighter jets at Madison’s Truax Field filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the U.S. Air Force.

After several years of contentious debate, in February 2020 the Air Force confirmed that it had chosen Madison’s Truax Field and a site in Montgomery, Alabama, from five possible sites, to host F-35 squadrons. The jets are due to arrive in 2023.

At issue in the lawsuit filed by Safe Skies Clean Water Wisconsin is the disproportionate impact of noise and water pollution on the population of Madison’s north and east sides.

“We been developed,” Chawla says. 

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