Kerry Lynch stepped into the role of editor of the&nbsp;Aviation International News&nbsp;monthly magazine in May 2022 after serving with&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;for eight years. She joined&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;in December 2014 as a senior editor covering Washington and business aviation news. She has also served on Convention News teams, including as editor of&nbsp;HAI Convention News. Lynch previously spent 25 years with Aviation Week. During her time there, she reported for and later steered&nbsp;The Weekly of Business Aviation, oversaw business aviation content on the&nbsp;Aviation Week Intelligence Network, served on the&nbsp;Show News&nbsp;staff, and held roles as the Washington columnist for&nbsp;Business &amp; Commercial Aviation&nbsp;and&nbsp;Overhaul &amp; Maintenance&nbsp;monthly magazines. In 2021 she was honored with the National Business Aviation Association Platinum Wing Award for lifetime achievement in journalism and was the 2004 recipient of the National Air Transportation Association’s Aviation Journalism Excellence Award. She also has been a recipient of an Aerospace Media Award for business aviation (2022) and NBAA Gold Wing Award (2003, 2024). Lynch graduated from The Ohio State University with a bachelor of arts in journalism.

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A business aviation coalition asked the Biden Administration to follow its existing biofuel program regulations as it develops rules surrounding qualifying feedstocks for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). <a href="https://nbaa.org/wp-content/uploads/aircraft-operations/environmental-sustainability/sustainable-aviation-fuel-saf/20240725-USDA-Letter-SAF-Coailition-Bizav.pdf">In comments</a> to a request for information rom the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on quantifying, verifying, and reporting on greenhouse emissions from various feedstocks used to produce SAF, eight aviation organizations welcomed the Biden Administration’s efforts to facilitate the expansion of the production and use of biofuel.
Efforts are underway by the administration to work on greenhouse gas rules that will impact how SAF is produced and can qualify for the clean fuel production credit under the Inflation Reduction Act. That credit provides up to $1.75 per gallon for fuel using qualified feedstocks.
The organizations pointed to the approach already in place for the Renewable Fuel Standard and existing biofuel audit programs, saying this should be a guideline for SAF.
“The Bizav SAF Coalition encourages the department to enable as much adaptability and flexibility in its framework as is practicable and encourages the USDA to embrace a performance-based approach in its analysis, focusing on outcomes rather than prescriptive and exclusionary lists of acceptable feedstocks,” the organizations said in their letter to the USDA.
Without the appropriate flexibility, the groups warned, the U.S. will be unable to meet the goals of the Administration’s SAF Grand Challenge to encourage the production of at least three billion gallons of SAF per year by 2030.
“It is likely that we will only achieve those goals through the existing scale and capabilities of U.S. agriculture through access to sustainable crop-based feedstocks,” the coalition said.

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