Sentences with phrase «because aircraft emissions»
This exclusion is ridiculous, not least because aircraft emissions have a particular role in heating the planet, due to the height at which they are released, and the multiplying impacts of the water vapour and other gases the planes produce.
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«The endangerment finding is key because it obligates the EPA to take regulatory action to cut carbon dioxide emissions from aircraft — it triggers a legal mandate,» said Drew Kodjak, executive director of the International Council on Clean Transportation.
The move comes because the company has made big inroads into its original target by cutting aircraft emissions intensity by 13.8 % efficiency and improving vehicle fuel efficiency by 16.6 % up until the end of the 2011 financial year.
Weak negative correlations were found between the mean annual NCEP RH and cirrus over oceans, but again, most of the data over oceans are in the air traffic corridors where contrail formation and raw aircraft emissions could affect the cirrus trends more than over land because of greater susceptibility in the more pristine marine air.