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EPA Rejects Appeal on Certain Aircraft Emissions

The Biogenic C02 Coalition claims EPA's aircraft emissions endangerment finding is illegal because of its treatment of certain biogenic emissions.

By Kerry Lynch • Editor, AIN monthly magazine

January 18, 2017

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has denied a petition for reconsideration from the Biogenic CO2 Coalition to exempt certain agricultural-based biogenic emissions from the agency’s endangerment finding regarding aircraft emissions. In July 2016, the agency formally decreed that greenhouse gas emission causes or contributes to air pollution that may endanger public health and welfare. This finding sets in motion a requirement for the agency to follow with regulations of emissions of effected aircraft. The agency has been closely watching the proceedings at the International Civil Aviation Organization on a global CO₂ standard.

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