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With Australia's recent decision to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, the
United States is the only developed nation that has refused to sign
the climate change treaty. So today, a coalition of states, cities and
environmental groups will petition the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency to reduce a massive source of global warming pollution:
emissions from the global aircraft fleet.
Environmental non-profit law firm Earthjustice will file a
petition to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Administrator on behalf of conservation groups Oceana, Friends of the
Earth and the Center for Biological Diversity to urge regulation of
warming pollution from the global aircraft fleet under the
requirements of the Clean Air Act. We have requested a response from
the EPA within 180 days.
Also filing a petition on the same issue today are the Attorneys
General of California, Connecticut, New Jersey and New Mexico, the
South Coast Air Quality Management District (smog control agency for
Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernadino counties in Southern
California), the City of New York (through its Corporation Counsel),
the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and the
District of Columbia.
In 2005, aircraft contributed 3% of the United States' total
carbon dioxide emissions and 12% of such emissions from the
transportation sector. Globally, the United States is responsible for
nearly half of worldwide carbon dioxide emissions from aircraft.
For a press release and a copy of both the environmental
coalition's and states' petitions, please visit:
http://www.oceana.org/climate/home/.
To contact Oceana environmental law expert, Eric Bilsky, call
202.467.1912 or e-mail him at ebilsky@oceana.org.
To arrange interviews with aviation, legal or scientific experts
on this issue, please contact Dianne Saenz or Dustin Cranor. We can be
reached at dsaenz@oceana.org or dcranor@oceana.org.
Oceana is an international ocean conservation group, which works
to protect and restore ocean ecosystems from many threats, including
climate change. For more information, go to www.oceana.org/climate.
Other environmental coalition partners are Earthjustice, Friends
of the Earth and the Center for Biological Diversity.
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