Airlines Banking On Capturing Carbon From The Air

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2022 03:51:38 +0000

In the EU, airlines are under pressure to cut carbon emissions or pay for the emissions they create. They are also under some pressure from consumers who are concerned about flying because of the enormous amount of pollution flying creates. Clearly, large airplanes are not going electric anytime soon, and we’re just inching our way […]

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Secret Subsidies: How the Government is Gifting Free Money to Airlines via Its Carbon Market

Credit to Author: Transport & Environment (T&E)| Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 03:57:12 +0000

UK airlines were allowed to pollute for free and given subsidies via the UK’s flagship scheme to reduce carbon emissions, new study finds. The UK government is giving airlines so many free pollution permits through the carbon market for aviation that they don’t have to pay for any of their climate-warming emissions. Airline polluters received […]

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Europe’s Dirtiest Airlines Received Millions in Free Pollution Permits in 2021

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2022 03:53:47 +0000

Ryanair and Lufthansa biggest exploiters of “license to pollute for free” in EU carbon market

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Airlines Call for End to Loopholes in Carbon Market & Back European Climate Measures

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2022 20:30:35 +0000

Airlines call for an end to loopholes in carbon marketFour airlines — easyJet, Ryanair, Jet2, and Wizz Air — together with clean mobility group T&E are calling for equal rules to apply to all flights departing from European airports, regardless of their destination, in order for European measures to effectively decarbonise the aviation industry by 2050. As part of its Fit for 55 package, […]

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More Airlines Are Offering Carbon Offsets, But Is It A Real Solution?

Credit to Author: Ciara Gillan| Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2019 12:00:33 +0000

As pressure mounts on the aviation industry to create more sustainable ways to do business, EasyJet has become the latest airline to pledge to fly carbon neutral. As concerns rise within the industry that people will stop flying in an effort to reduce their carbon footprint, a host of airlines including British Airlines, Air Canada, and Air New Zealand, are now offering carbon offsets as a way to combat the emissions their domestic flights are creating. 

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EasyJet 1st Airline In World To Go Carbon Neutral — Starting Today

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 02:11:47 +0000

In a corporate press release, EasyJet today announced that as of today all of its flights will be carbon neutral. EasyJet has a total of 331 airplanes and will become the first major airline in the world to operate a fleet that is fully net-zero carbon. What this means a little more specifically is that EasyJet will have balanced all of its carbon emissions via carbon removal efforts

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Vaping man harasses passengers in flight, forces emergency landing

Credit to Author: ccepeda| Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 05:39:37 +0000

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The aggressive man seemed drunk, and shouted abuse and threats to passengers sitting in the front of the plane.

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