Coalition blasts EPA delays on replacing do-nothing Trump rule

Aircraft, ship and non-road vehicles and engines are major contributors to climate change pollution. In late 2007, Earthjustice petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate these sources of climate pollution under the Clean Air Act. In early 2008, the Supreme Court reaffirmed that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency must regulate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under…

Filed January 15, 2021

First-ever airplane emissions rule fails to reduce greenhouse gases.

Environmental groups today threatened to sue the Trump administration for failing to fulfill its obligation under the Clean Air Act to curb planet-warming pollution from airplanes.

In the wake of the Paris climate agreement, countries have created the first ever market-based mechanism to address climate pollution from international aviation—but it may not be strong enough.

Agency releases long-awaited endangerment finding acknowledging that planet-warming pollution from airplanes poses threat to human welfare

Plaintiffs, the Center for Biological Diversity and Friends of the Earth (collectively, “Plaintiffs”), bring this action against Defendants, the United States Environmental Protection Agency and Gina McCarthy, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (collectively, “EPA”), for unreasonable delay under section 304 of the Clean Air Act.

Airplanes are one of the fastest-growing carbon emissions sources, projected to triple by 2050 without new standards

Airplanes could generate 43 gigatonnes of planet-warming pollution between 2016 and 2050—consuming almost 5 percent of the world’s remaining carbon budget—and the UN is letting the industry get away with it.

Proposed international guidelines would not reduce carbon emissions below business as usual

Greenhouse gas emissions from airplanes threaten human health and contribute to climate change, but the EPA's proposed regulatory approach is not sufficient to reduce CO2.

Agency announces plans for carbon pollution controls on airplanes

Six national environmental organizations today called on the EPA and FAA to move quickly to set emission standards to curb greenhouse gas pollution from the nation’s aircraft fleet.

Action lays groundwork for domestic aircraft greenhouse emissions standards, regardless of international delay

Challenge cites EPA’s delay in addressing one of the fastest-growing sources of carbon pollution

A new report by the International Council on Clean Transportation ranks the major airlines according to their fuel efficiency—and for the first time reveals the major gaps that exist between airlines in their fuel use. For a long time, green consumers have known that air travel is the biggest part of the average individual’s carbon…

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