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American Airlines protected from EU EST
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- European Union, USA
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- December 2 2012
President Obama signed into law the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme Prohibition Act (S. 1956) November 27 to prohibit U.S. airlines from participating in the European Union’s Emissions Trading System for greenhouse gas emissions
Legislation prohibits US airline inclusion in EU ETS
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- European Union, USA
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- November 18 2012
The House passed the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme Prohibition Act of 2011 (S. 1956) November 13 to prohibit United States airlines from participating in a European Union plan to include international airlines in its Emissions Trading System for greenhouse gas emissions
U.S. exemption to EU ETS airline reg
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- European Union, USA
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- November 11 2012
The House will likely pass legislation on November 13 that will bar the European Union from forcing U.S. airlines to comply with its carbon dioxide Emissions Trading System
Airlines seek government action against EU ETS
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- European Union, USA
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- August 5 2012
A coalition of American airlines and aviation industry organizations sent a letter July 30 to the departments of State and Treasury asking them to take action to reverse the European Union’s decision to include aviation greenhouse gas emissions in its Emissions Trading System
Legislation shields U.S. airlines from EU ETS
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- European Union, USA
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- August 5 2012
The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee unanimously approved legislation (S. 1956) July 31 to bar the European Union from extending its Emissions Trading System to American airlines after Senator John Thune (R-SD) added language supporting a global approach to curbing the sector’s greenhouse gas emissions
EU aviation emissions trading opponents to meet
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- European Union
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- July 29 2012
The U.S. Departments of State and Transportation will host a meeting July 31-August 1 of 15 countries that oppose the European Union’s decision to include aviation emissions in its cap and trade system
ICAO emissions reductions efforts
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- European Union, Global
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- July 1 2012
On June 29, the International Civil Aviation Organization's Ad Hoc Working Group on Market-Based Measures is working on three options for a global, market-based system for reducing airlines' greenhouse gas emissions, in order to defuse industry and government tension over the unilateral creation of an EU aviation emissions trading system
Transportation Secretary queried on airlines and EU carbon caps
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- European Union, USA
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- June 10 2012
At a June 6 hearing of the Senate Commerce Committee, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood was questioned about whether the Administration would support Senator John Thune’s (R-SD) legislation to prohibit American airlines from participating in the European Union’s Emissions Trading System
Chinese, Indian airline GHGs
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- European Union
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- May 20 2012
The European Commission said May 15 that airlines from China and India have systematically failed to comply with a requirement to provide data on their 2011 greenhouse gas emissions as part of their integration into the European Union Emissions Trading System
Possible Chinese exemption from EU airline emissions scheme
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- China, European Union
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- April 29 2012
On April 26, European Union Climate Action Commissioner Connie Hedegaard said the EU will assess whether a recent modification to China's air passenger charges, replacing passenger fees paid into an airport construction fund with fees paid into a civil aviation development fund, would exempt Chinese airlines from the EU Emissions Trading System
