Tag: Airlines

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  How Airports Are Embracing Solar Power

  Gatwick Airport has just installed a modest solar array, with bigger things to follow. Here's Why It Matters.

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  Global Airlines Call For UN Intervention To Prevent Carbon Trade War

  The growing carbon trade war precipitated by the European Union airline emission trading program really is indicative of the continued global denial about the environmental impact of our activities.

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  EU's Highest Court Gives Green Light To Charging International Airlines For Carbon Emissions

  From January 1, all airlines landing in the European Union will have to participate in the emission trading program, purchasing credits for all their carbon emissions.

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  Inefficient Planes and Rising Oil Prices Sunk American Airlines

  Old, inefficient planes, along with rising labor costs, sunk the nation's erstwhile largest airline.

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  Nation's First Cooking Oil-Fueled Commercial Flight Takes Off from Seattle

  And I'm on board. Right now.

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  Alaska Airlines to Fly 75 Planes on 20% Cooking Oil-Based Fuel Starting Later this Week

  The biofuel blend is only a small step in the right direction, but it shows that it is possible to operate airplanes without fossil fuels.

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  European Union Court Adviser Backs Plan to Include Airlines In Emissions Trading Scheme

  The airline industry is supposed to join the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)—already a requirement for other heavily polluting industries—in January, but the industry has been fighting the requirement.

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  Ask Pablo: Will iPads in the Cockpit Really Lower Airlines' Paper Use?

  Photo by comedy_nose via Flickr CC Dear Pablo: Two airlines have recently switched from paper flight records to iPads. Is this really an environmental improvement? TreeHugger recently covered news of two airlines (, followed by United Continental) that

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  Lufthansa Will Become First Airline Using Biofuels On A Commercially Scheduled Route

  photo: Andres Rueda/Creative Commons Lufthansa looks set to make aviation history: Using biofuels on a regularly scheduled route. From July 15, one Lufthansa Airbus A321 will ply the 244 miles route from Frankfurt to Hamburg with one engine burning

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  If Airlines & Passengers Can't Afford To Pay For Their Emissions, We Can't Afford To Fly At All

  The European Union's long-coming plan to include foreign-based airlines in its carbon trading scheme is scheduled to begin in January 2012, which would make all airlines flying to and from Europe to paying for their

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  Stunning Kite Aerial Photography Means No Airplane Required (Slideshow)

  Earthbound photographers are capable of capturing incredible images—and digital technology allows even hobby photographers to create images that transcend human perception—but sometimes, a simple

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  More Palm Oil Questions: Finnair Halts Biofuel Introduction, As Malaysia's Forests Fall For Farming

  Two on palm oil, from Finland and Malaysia: State-owned airline Finnair has announced that it will not begin using aviation biofuel on some of its routes this year as previously planned. Part of the reason is the

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  IndiGo Air Greens Fleet with Airbus "Neo" Jets

  An Indian low-cost airline, IndiGo, has been the first buyer of 150 Airbus A320neo fuel-efficient jets, not only expanding its currently modest

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  Southwest Airlines Announces More Energy-Efficient Landings

  Southwest Airlines is changing its landing procedures in the hopes of reducing emissions, delays, and of course, costs. The move is driven in part by changes mandated by the Federal Aviation Administration that

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  Airline to Launch Massive Biojet Fuel-from-Waste Project

  British Airways is already working on a goal of running planes on 10% made-from-waste biofuel, Air New Zealand has a goal of using one million barrels of sustainable biofuels by 2013, and

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  Airplanes = Largest Source of Lead Air Emissions

  Get on a small plane, and carbon emissions aren't the only environmental problem to think about. Aviation fuel is the largest source of lead emissions, and Friends of the Earth is calling on the EPA to get it under

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  Global Aviation Industry Aims to Cap Emissions in 2020 + Strengthens Energy Efficiency Target

  With the European Union's plan to include aviation in its emission trading scheme just two years away, there's some more movement on slowing the growing carbon footprint of the airline industry. At the annual

• Ryanair Boss: Scientists Have "Nearly Always Been Wrong"

  Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary may come close to rivaling arch-climate skeptic Lord Monckton when it comes to craziness. Having ranted and raved about eco-loonies in the past, he's now laying firmly into the scientific