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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
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
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
Airline emissions’ inclusion defended
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- European Union
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- June 12 2011
European Union Climate Action Commissioner Connie Hedegaard said June 8 that inclusion of aviation in the EU Emissions Trading System is justified because the International Air Transport Association has been unable to agree on measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Lawful to include US airlines in ETS
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- European Union, USA
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- October 9 2011
European Court of Justice Advocate-General Juliane Kokott released a court opinion October 6 that is expected to play an important role in the international policy dispute over whether U.S. airlines will be included in the European Union greenhouse gas emissions trading system: that inclusion of U.S. airlines in the trading program is lawful
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 judges hear U.S. airlines’ worries about inclusion in emissions trading
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- European Union, USA
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- July 5 2011
On July 5, lawyers for EU member states and the bloc's institutions told the Court of Justice of the European Union that the inclusion of U.S. airlines in the European Union's Emissions Trading System (ETS) is legal
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
EU ETS airline regs profitable
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- European Union
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- February 26 2012
The Center for American Progress and Climate Advisers released an analysis last week concluding that the European Union’s inclusion of airlines into its Emissions Trading System will increase airline profits
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
