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| Wed, 22nd Jul 2020 16:20:00 |
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Trump moves to regulate greenhouse emissions from planes, but critics skeptical |
Andrew Wheeler, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), today announced that the agency would limit greenhouse gas emissions from airplanes for the first time in U.S. history.
The proposed rule represents a rare step to reduce planet-warming pollution by EPA, which has typically weakened or delayed climate rules under President Donald Trump.
It’s also historic in nature. The United States has never regulated carbon dioxide from planes, in part because the international aviation sector was omitted from the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement.
But while industry groups cheered today’s announcement, environmentalists slammed the proposal as too weak to achieve meaningful emission reductions from aviation in the coming decades.
“Earlier today, the U.S., for the first time, proposed regulations on greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft,” Wheeler said on a call with reporters this morning.
“This is the third time in the past two years that the Trump administration has taken major action to regulate greenhouse gases in a way that is legally defensible,” he said, referring to the agency’s rollbacks of Obama-era rules on power plants and automobiles.
Wheeler said the proposed rule—which has not yet been published in the Federal Register—would mirror standards from the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a United Nations body.
He tacitly acknowledged that industry groups—including manufacturers of airplane engines—had lobbied the agency to adopt the ICAO standards.
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