Environmental

EPA Admits Airplane Pollution’s Climate Danger But Drags Feet on Emissions Rules

Agency releases long-awaited endangerment finding acknowledging that planet-warming pollution from airplanes poses threat to human welfare

An airplane.
Global aviation, if it were equivalent to a country, would be the 7th largest global emitter, just below Germany and more than Korea and Canada. Photo courtesy of Travis Olbrich

Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–July 26, 2016.   After nine years of delay, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency yesterday officially acknowledged in a so-called “endangerment finding” that planet-warming pollution from airplanes disrupts…

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