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Free carbon allowances for airlines
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- European Union
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- October 2 2011
The European Commission finalized a method September 26 to assign free carbon allowances to airlines that must participate in the European Union’s Emissions Trading System beginning in 2012
EU airline decision unchanged
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- European Union, USA
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- January 22 2012
The European Commission sent a letter January 16 to U.S. Secretaries of State and Transportation asserting that it will not change its decision to include U.S. airlines in the European Union Emissions trading System
House exempts U.S. airlines
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- European Union, USA
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- October 30 2011
The House approved legislation (H.R. 2594) October 24 that would prohibit U.S. airlines from participating in the European Union emissions trading scheme, which is scheduled to take effect for airlines this January
EU ETS airline challenges
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- European Union, USA
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- April 1 2012
House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman John Mica (R-FL) and U.S. airline representatives March 28 urged the administration to use an international aviation treaty to challenge the European Union’s plan to include American carriers in its Emissions Trading System
29 countries oppose airline inclusion in EU ETS
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- European Union, Global
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- February 26 2012
The United States, China, Japan, and Russia led a group of 29 countries February 21-22 in formally declaring opposition to the European Union’s inclusion of global airlines in its greenhouse gas Emissions Trading System
EU airline rule could be altered
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- European Union
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- February 12 2012
Jos Delbeke, director general of the European Commission’s climate department said February 7 that the International Civil Aviation Organization has a last chance to forestall the full inclusion of airlines in the European Union’s Emissions Trading System for greenhouse gases if it can agree on concrete emissions cutting measures within six to eight months
EU court confirms inclusion of international airlines in ETS
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- European Union, USA
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- January 8 2012
The European Union’s Court of Justice ruled December 21 that an attempt by United States airline operators to avoid inclusion in the EU’s Emissions Trading System is invalid and not justified by international law or specific agreements between the two parties
Inclusion of U.S. airlines in EU scheme objected
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- European Union, USA
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- January 8 2012
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood sent a letter December 16 to the European Union and member states asking them to halt, delay, or suspend a plan to subject U.S. airlines to a CO2 cap and trade system that began this month
Committee approves airline EU emissions exemption
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- European Union, USA
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- September 11 2011
On September 8, the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure approved The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme Prohibition Act of 2011 (H.R. 2594) that would exempt US airlines from the EU emissions cap on all flights leaving or landing in the European Union set to begin in January 2012
EU ETS Airlines in unified registry
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- European Union
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- February 5 2012
The European Commission announced January 30 that airlines covered under the European Union Emissions Trading System can now open accounts to track their emissions allowances in a unified registry
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- Author - Daniel Phillips
- Jurisdiction - European Union
- Workarea - Aviation