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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
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
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
Cape wind safety determination questioned
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- USA
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- 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
South Korea airline emissions down
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- South Korea
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- July 8 2012
South Korea’s Ministry of Land, Transport, and Maritime Affairs issued a plan June 29 guiding airlines to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent from business as usual levels by 2050
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
Jet engine nox rule
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- USA
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- June 17 2012
The Environmental Protection Agency will adopt a final rule June 18 reducing nitrogen oxide emissions from certain gas turbo engines used in commercial passenger and freight aircraft
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
Upcoming hearings
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- USA
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- May 27 2012
The House Rules Committee meets May 30 to consider the FY2013 energy and water spending bill
Air rules delay passes house committee
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- USA
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- May 20 2012
The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved legislation (H.R. 4471) May 17 that would delay three Environmental Protection Agency air pollution regulations, clearing the bill for consideration by the full House in late June
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