Aviation
How Regulation, Profitability and Sustainability Affect Aerospace Industry
Panel at the Global Aerospace Summit 2012 discuss how the environment, fuel prices and legislation impact the civil aviation industry.
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Policy & Enforcement Briefing: California-Quebec ETS, Energy Efficiency, Canada Emissions Target
Here's the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes 11 items.
The California Air Resources Board released proposed regulations to link its cap-and-trade program to the carbon market ...
Delta Airlines Buys Oil Refinery to Control Fuel Prices
Delta Airlines has agreed to buy a refinery from oil giant ConocoPhillips in an effort to reduce its $300 million-a-year jet fuel bill.
The ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Fracking Controls, China Aviation Plan, CVS Settlement
Here's the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes 10 items.
The Obama administration has set national standards ...
Boeing 737 MAX to Improve Fuel Burn up to 12%
Boeing has made a series of design updates to its 737 MAX engine variant that will make additional fuel savings available to customers by 2017, ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: EU Aviation Law, Carbon Permits, GHG Targets, Gulf Sheen
Here's the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes 11 items.
India's environment minister called the EU aviation ...
United, American, Other Airlines Drop EU Carbon Trading Lawsuit, Urge U.S. to Act
American Airlines, United Continental and association Airlines for America have dropped their lawsuit challenging U.S. airlines' inclusion in the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme, ...
Southwest Airlines’ Weight Loss Program
In 2010, Southwest Airlines saved more than 570,000 gallons of fuel and reduced emissions by approximately 5,700 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent ...
All Nippon Group Sets 20% Carbon Reduction Goal
ANA Group, Japan's largest airline group, is aiming to cut its carbon emissions by 20 percent by 2020 compared with 2005 levels.
Dubbed ANA Fly Eco ...
Qantas to Run Flights on Converted Cooking Oil Biofuel Mix
Qantas said it will operate Australia's first commercial flights powered by a blend of converted cooking oil and conventional jet fuel starting April 13, on ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: EU ETS Risks, Hormuz Blockade Impact, UK Solar Tariffs
Energy analysts say that the risk of the aviation sector exiting the EU cap-and-trade scheme is being priced into the market, and the impact could ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Air Standards, Supreme Court Ruling, EU ETS, Chevron, Keystone Fast-Track
The EPA is retaining the existing secondary National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for NOx and SOx. The agency said that though the standards ...
Renewables Briefing: Sainsbury's 6.9MW Solar PV, RGS Energy Capital, Wells Fargo, Navy Biojet Fuel
British supermarket chain Sainsbury's has installed 6.9 MW solar PV systems on store rooftops in the south of England. The series of 115 projects, completed ...
Airbus ‘Could Lose Chinese Business’ Due to European Carbon Rules
Airbus' parent company has warned that it stands to lose Chinese business if the European Commission ignores protests from airlines about its European emissions trading ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: All-of-the-Above Energy, Calif. Safer Consumer Products Regs, Deepwater Horizon
At the University of Miami, President Obama gave his first remarks on rising gasoline prices, saying that the U.S. is producing more oil now than ...
Hawaiian Earns Carbon Credits Through Engine-Washing
Hawaiian Airlines has earned aviation-based carbon credits under the Verified Carbon Standard, based in part on its use of Pratt & Whitney’s EcoPower engine-washing ...
EDF Report Details Shipping Efficiencies
New technology and thinking are unlocking a raft of previously unattainable environmental and economic efficiencies in the commercial shipping industry, according to a report released ...
EasyJet to Trial Electric Taxiing System
EasyJet will be the first airline to trial an electric taxiing system being developed by Honeywell and Safran.
The budget airline expects to start operational ...
55 Airports Now in Emissions Reduction Program
Some 55 major European airports are now part of a program aimed at cutting carbon emissions, trade organization Airports Council International has announced.
Airports now part ...
Southwest Airlines Interior to Cut 635lb Per Plane
Southwest Airlines has unveiled a redesigned cabin that it says reduces aircraft weight while cutting waste.
The cabin's seats achieve weight savings of nearly six ...
