Environment
News about environmental issues relating to aircraft operations, including noise issues, emissisions, and regulations. See Fuel for biofuel.
Environment
FAA Awards $125M in Green Contracts
Five aerospace companies have been awarded a total of $125 million in contracts as part of an environmental initiative to spur development of new aircraft
Environment
Eurocopter joins biofuel quest
Eurocopter and parent company EADS have teamed with Argentina-based BioCombustibles del Chubut (BC) to study the feasibility of building an aviation biofue
Environment
EPA begins ruling process to phase out leaded avgas
With the deadline for the comment period on the Environmental Protection Agency’s advanced notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) to phase out leaded avgas
Environment
Business Aviation and the Environment
There is no silver bullet for reducing the effect of business aviation on the environment, most industry analysts agree, but the combination of new technol
Environment
Alternative fuels still face hurdles
The alternative aviation fuel industry continues to conduct flight tests to validate the use of new jet-fuel blends.
Environment
Turbofan manufacturers continue ‘green’ efforts
Turbofan manufacturers are developing cleaner, quieter and more environmentally friendly engines that will meet current and future regulatory requirements.
Environment
Next-gen ATC promises environmental rewards
The benefits of implementing NextGen and its European counterpart, the Single European Sky ATM Research (Sesar), are threefold: not only will the new proce
Environment
Airline Bean Counters Need To Count Emissions Carefully
Airlines that will be subject to Europe’s new
Environment
Boeing Headquarters Earns EPA Energy Star
Boeing’s Chicago downtown headquarters has earned the U.S.
Environment
Rockwell Collins Plays Key Role in Green Connection Evaluations
Rockwell Collins, as a member of a consortium of industry partners led by Swedish air navigation service provider Luftfartsverket (LFV), has been awarded a
Environment
Committee studies eco-friendly production, dismantling
Operating an aircraft accounts for 80 percent of the machine’s lifetime environmental footprint, according to a newly released Dassault study.
Environment
OEMs embrace more-electric aircraft systems
Business jet manufacturers are quietly progressing toward more-electric architectures, where electricity replaces hydraulic and pneumatic power in systems
Environment
Honeywell Launches New Emissions and Monitoring
Honeywell is offering a new emissions monitoring service for business jets operating in European airspace to assist in compliance with European Union emi
Environment
World Fuel To Acquire Western Petroleum
World Fuel Services on Monday announced an agreement to acquire Eden Prairie, Minn.-based Western Petroleum, including its branded aviation fuel distributi
Environment
$125M Awarded for ‘Cleen’ Aircraft Engines
The FAA awarded contracts valued at $125 million to several manufacturers to develop and demonstrate technologies that will reduce jet aircraft fuel c
Regulations and Government
Contracts Awarded To Accelerate ‘Cleen’ Environment
The FAA has awarded contracts valued at $125 million to several manufacturers to develop and demonstrate technologies that will reduce jet aircraft fuel co
Environment
Negotiations continue for ETS Support Facility
Eurocontrol’s ETS Support Facility has still not bee
Environment
ETS Support Facility Decision Still Not Resolved
Eurocontrol’s emissions trading scheme (ETS) support facility has still not been definitively confirmed as an option for operators to meet their obligation
Environment
First Algae-powered Airplane Takes To the Skies
EADS flew the first aircraft powered solely by algae-based biofuel today at the ILA Airshow in
Environment
EPA Wants To Get the Lead Out of Avgas
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a pre-publication version of an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANRPM) on lead in avgas.
Environment
Europe likely to approve ETS Support Facility
Eurocontrol appears to be close to finally approving the funding and development of its ETS Support Facility, which would give business aircraft operators
Environment
Phillips 66 provides rebate for compassion missions
Phillips 66 Aviation is offering a $1-per-gallon rebate to qualifying pilots flying Angel Flight Northeast and Mercy Medical Airlift missions, when fuel is
Charter & Fractional
NATA Concerned by Climate and Energy Legislation
The National Air Transportation Association (NATA) is concerned with the “broad framework” of the American Power Act, a bill introduced earlier this month
Environment
Chevron Global To Stop Marketing Fuel in 27 States
Chevron Global Aviation, which operates five oil refineries, “will withdraw from marketing Chevron- and Texaco-branded aviation fuels in 27 states [approxi
Regulations and Government
Eurocontrol Close To Approving ETS Support Facility
Eurocontrol appears to be close to approving the funding and development of its emissions trading scheme (ETS) support facility, which would give business
Environment
EBAA threatens pullout from emissions scheme
The European Business Aviation Association (EBAA) may advise its members to pull out of the European Union’s emissions trading scheme if Eurocontrol does n
FBOs
Hiller Group buys Air Petro
On May 1, Chevron fuel distributor Hiller Group finalized its purchase of Air Petro, a Chevron-branded distributor in the western U.S.
