Airplane Emissions Are Causing Pollution

Yesterday the Environmental Protection Agency issued "a scientific assessment known as an endangerment finding, which determined that emissions from certain kinds of plane engines contribute to pollution that fuels climate change and creates health risks for Americans." Commercial jets are often connected to emissions that have carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide or other compounds. The EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said that this will lead to "aircraft engines that will produce less pollution-not just greenhouse gases, but less pollution and potentially noise pollution."

U.S. regulators are going to partner "with the International Civil Aviation Organization to set global CO2 emissions standards next year." As stated by the Environmental Protection Agency, commercial aircraft contributes about 3 percent of all U.S. emissions.

"The Center for Biological Diversity and Friends of the Earth, represented by the environmental law group Earthjustice, petitioned the EPA in 2007 to regulate carbon emissions from aircraft under the federal Clean Air Act." Earthjustice also sued in 2010 to try and force "regulators to set standards on green-house gas pollution from planes."

According to Dan Rutherford, aviation program director for the nonprofit International Council on Clean Transportation, new aircraft designs can potentially decrease fuel usage by almost a quarter by 2024 which is more than the required amount.

"Monday's action continues the Obama administration's push to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions from a wide array of sectors. Last week, the White House announced new initiatives aimed at making a switch to electric vehicles more attractive for the nation's drivers." Government officials also took a trip to Vienna over the weekend "as part of an international effort to phase out hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs-powerful agents that are most often used in refrigerants in car and home air conditioners."

Washington Post Article White House Takes Aim At A Fast-Growing Source Of Emissions: Airplanes: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/07/25/white-house-takes-aim-at-a-fast-growing-source-of-emissions-airplanes/

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