Regulations and Government
Aviation Emissions Investigation Requested
Rep.

Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), chairman of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, wants to know whether the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has plans to regulate heat-trapping global warming emissions from America’s aviation sector.

“The EPA has a clear role to play in protecting Americans from the worst impacts of heat-trapping emissions that cause global warming,” Markey said in a January 8 letter to EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson. “When it comes to the contribution of jet aviation to the looming threat of a climate catastrophe, the Bush Administration’s attempts to fly under the radar have increasingly become a flight from reality.”