Sentences with phrase «regulating aircraft emissions»

Regulating aircraft emissions is part of the Obama administration's goal under the Paris Climate Agreement to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by up to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025.

The EPA had been under pressure from environmental groups who first petitioned it to regulate aircraft emissions under the Clean Air Act in 2007 and sued it in 2010.

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However, MacKenzie said he is wary of deriving laws to regulate contrails from aircraft the way carbon emissions are regulated and taxed.

WASHINGTON, June 2 (Reuters)- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans as soon as Friday to determine whether carbon dioxide from aircraft endangers public health, a first step to regulating emissions from the aviation sector, sources familiar with the rulemaking process said.

WASHINGTON, June 10 (Reuters)- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday said greenhouse gases from aircraft endanger human health, taking the first step toward regulating emissions from the domestic aviation industry.

This standard applies whenever EPA wishes to regulate emissions from vehicles, non-road engines, aircraft, power plants, industrial facilities, etc..

A coalition of environmental groups have been pushing the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from domestic and foreign aircraft that land at U.S. airports since 2007, and have been struggling, since then, to compel the agency to take action.

Indeed, «even though 90 % of aircraft fuel is burned at cruise altitudes, only the pollutants that are emitted during takeoff and landing are regulated by measuring emissions during tests.»