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Airlines Search For Ways to Cut Emissions

Air travel, which makes up less than three percent of man-made CO2 emissions, has become the whipping boy for environmentalists, The Christian Science Monitor reports. Two factors have placed airline travel in the center of the global-warming debate: The number of airline tickets sold per year could double to more than 9 billion by 2025. In addition, experts see no

EU Rethinks Airline Emissions Trading, Throws U.S. a Bone

The European Commission is scaling back its aviation emissions plan and considering a two-year grace period, until 2013, for foreign airlines before they’re required to participate in its carbon reduction scheme, EUobserver reports (via Business Week). Intra-European flights will be covered by the scheme from the beginning of 2011. The move could ... Read more »

Branson: Airlines Can Cut CO2 Emissions 25% in 2 Years

Even though high fuel prices have cost the Virgin Group and Virgin Atlantic about a billion dollars a year in increased costs because of its trains and planes, Richard Branson prays that fuel prices remain high in order to stir people to take action to address global warming, Grist reports (via MSNBC). ... Read more »

TerraPass VP of Marketing: Link Offset Program to Customer Behavior

Although it hasn’t been measured directly yet, Adam Stein, VP of Marketing for TerraPass, says that based on focus groups that TerraPass has done and emails he has received, he believes that Expedia has increased customer loyalty by offering flight terrapasses to its customers. As Stein points out in the interview with Marketing Green’s David Wigder, carbon ... Read more »

DOD Gives EERC $5 Million for Bio-Jet Fuel

The U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded The Energy & Environmental Research Center $5 million to develop and demonstrate a new domestic bio-jet fuel with the specifications of JP-8. The 18-month project will produce enough fuel to allow DARPA to demonstrate it in real-world combat scenarios. The ... Read more »

LAX Adds 30 Alt-Fuel Vehicles

Los Angeles International Airport is buying 30 alternative-fuel buses and trucks – 21 compressed natural-gas transit buses, three liquefied-petroleum-gas light- and medium-duty refuse trucks, and six LPG stakebed trucks. The 21 buses will be purchased for $7,885,648 from North American Bus Industries. Reynolds Buick Pontiac GMC Trucks will provide the refuse ... Read more »

EU Could Force Airlines to Join Emissions Trading Scheme

U.S. airlines flying into and out of Europe would need to buy permits to cover emissions on their European routes if draft European Commission Legislation is adopted, The Times reports (via GroovyGreen). The legislation, to be published next month, says that airlines would join Europe’s emissions trading scheme by 2011 and ... Read more »

LAX Unveils Energy-Saving New Lighting

Los Angeles International Airport has installed more than 1,800 LED-based fixtures as part of a lighting renovation project by Color Kinetics Incorporated . The LED-based system is expected to consume just 25 percent of the total energy drawn by the previous fixtures, while also reducing maintenance and cutting the number ... Read more »


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