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NASA tests plant-based biofuel in jets

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 2 2013

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) researchers recently concluded a series of test flights in California to study the effects of

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

Successor liability rejected in aircraft case

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 29 2012

One of the interesting types of projects your humble blogger gets to work on from time to time concerns product liability and mass tort issues that arise from the M&A context, including due diligence going into a deal and successor liability issues coming out of a deal

Ninth Circuit determines statute of repose inception date in aircraft defect suit

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 11 2012

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a district court’s determination that the statute of repose under the General Aviation Revitalization Act began to run when an allegedly defective part, “along with the aircraft in which it was installed originally, was delivered to its first purchaser.”

PHMSA proposes new hazardous substance transportation rules

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 24 2012

The Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) has issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to amend the Hazardous Materials Regulations (HAZMAT) to align with revised international standards

Airplane manufacturer has no duty in Minnesota to provide flight safety training

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 9 2012

The Minnesota Supreme Court has determined that an airplane manufacturer’s duty to warn “does not include a duty to provide training to pilots who purchase an airplane from the manufacturer” and that a pilot may not recover in tort when the manufacturer’s duty was imposed by contract only

Third Circuit rules FAA need not adopt EPA comments on airport expansion

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 20 2012

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) need not adopt U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) comments challenging an FAA air-quality analysis of a planned Philadelphia International Airport expansion

EPA issues final rule setting emissions standards for certain aircraft engines

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 29 2012

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a final rule setting aircraft engine emissions standards for oxides of nitrogen (NOX ) from certain gas turbo engines used by commercial aircraft

EPA issues final rule setting standards for aircraft deicing effluents

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 11 2012

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a final rule setting standards and guidelines to control aircraft deicing effluents

Federal court dismisses CAA aircraft emissions suit against EPA

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 30 2012

A federal court in the District of Columbia has dismissed a lawsuit filed by environmental groups against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), alleging that the agency violated the Clean Air Act (CAA) by failing to determine whether emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG s) and carbon black from aircraft “cause or contribute to dangerous air pollution.”