Aviation and the EU ETS: what's next? *

European Union - February 25 2013
The European Union Emissions Trading System ("EU ETS") faced serious international opposition in 2012 for seeking to include carbon emissions from…

Co-authors: Françoise S. Labrousse, Jennifer M. Hayes .

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Looking beyond lead: developments in federal regulation of avgas lead emissions *

USA - December 21 2012
In a letter dated October 23, 2012, U.S. Representative Henry A. Waxman wrote to the Federal Aviation Administration ("FAA") Acting Administrator Michael P. Huerta urging him to accelerate measures to increase the use of unleaded substitutes for aviation gasoline ("avgas").

Co-authors: Thomas M. Donnelly, Naveen C. Rao.

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EPA Issues emissions rule for hydraulically fractured natural gas wells *

USA - May 15 2012
Natural gas exploration and drilling has greatly increased over the past several years.

Co-authors: Charles T. Wehland.

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Marcellus shale: lawmakers fail to address pressing needs regarding natural gas industry in 2011–12 budget *

USA - July 21 2011
On June 29, 2011, for the first time in eight years, the Pennsylvania General Assembly, confronted with deep budgetary and economic challenges, passed a balanced budget before the June 30 deadline with no broad-based tax increases and a property tax reform measure.

Co-authors: Francis A. Muracca II.

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U.S. Department of Transportation sets airline customer service standards with stringent new rules on U.S. and foreign carriers *

USA - May 5 2011
Acting under its statutory authority to prevent "unfair and deceptive practices" by airlines and travel agents, the U.S. Department of Transportation ("DOT") has adopted sweeping new rules on customer service and extended several existing ones to foreign air carriers, over their objection.

Co-authors: Andrew B. Steinberg.

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