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USDA and FAA renew bio jet fuel program

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 26 2013

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have announced a five-year extension of their agreement to

USDA, FAA aviation biofuels collaboration

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 22 2013

On April 15, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced a five

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

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • 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"

2012 post-election advisory

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 9 2012

On January 2, 2013, $1.2 trillion in automatic, across-the-board spending cuts to defense and domestic programsknown as “sequestration”are set to begin as mandated by the Budget Control Act of 2011

Rep. Henry Waxman urges FAA to immediately address lead in aviation gasoline

  • Sullivan & Worcester LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 7 2012

As mentioned in an earlier posts, "Industry-Government Task Force Report Sheds Light on Future of Aviation Gasoline," "Environmental Advocacy Group Sues EPA to Regulate Emissions from Aviation Gasoline," and "EPA Sets Its Regulatory Cross Hairs on Lead Aviation Fuel," leaded aviation gasoline, or avgas, remains a concern in the general aviation sector

The European Union Emissions Trading System (EU-ETS): the foreign law, the international politics, the domestic cost

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • European Union, USA
  • -
  • October 16 2012

The European Union Emissions Trading System (commonly referred to as the EU-ETS) has been in effect since 2005 and has emerged as a major issue and concern for U.S. airlines and private, long-range aircraft operators

FAA's no hazard to air navigation determinations challenged

  • Sullivan & Worcester LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 29 2012

As we discussed earlier in our post entitled "Offshore Wind Energy Turbines Pose No Threat to Air Navigation and Traffic Operations According to the FAA," the Federal Aviation Administration (“FAA”) issued No Hazard to Air Navigation determinations for the Cape Wind offshore wind energy project located in the Nantucket Sound

Offshore wind energy turbines pose no threat to air navigation and traffic operations according to the FAA

  • Sullivan & Worcester LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 22 2012

The Federal Aviation Administration affirmed its previous decisions that the Cape Wind offshore wind energy project poses no threat to air navigation and traffic operations

No air hazard

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 19 2012

Affirming earlier agency determinations, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a determination August 15 that the proposed Cape Wind project of 130 turbines poses no hazard for air navigation

Cape wind safety determination questioned

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 22 2012

Representatives Darrell Issa (R-CA) and John Mica (R-FL) sent a letter July 17 to the Federal Aviation Administration finding that its determination that a proposed wind farm off the Massachusetts coast would not interfere with air travel may have been based on political considerations rather than safety