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June 19, 2007
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Transatlantic Plan to Cut Aircraft Emissions Lifts Off
Jacques Barrot, European Commission vice president responsible for transport, and Marion Blakey, administrator of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, launched a emissions and noise reduction policy called AIRE (Atlantic Interoperability Initiative to Reduce Emissions). (Environment News Service) Read more... Gore Says U.S. Business Woken Up to Global Warming In a new foreword to a re-issue of his bestselling book Earth in the Balance, Gore says Wall Street and city mayors across the United States have started to take action and, while time is running out, the battle is not lost. (Reuters via Planet Ark) Read more... Google Puts the Sun to Work Google has flipped the switch on a new solar power system that, when finished, will be the largest solar installation on a corporate campus in the U.S. and one of the largest on any corporate site in the world. (Environment News Service) Read more... Airbus Targets 50% Emissions Reduction by 2020; Boeing Blames the Engineers As Airbus CEO Louis Gallois outlined ambitious environmental targets, calling for the aviation sector and its suppliers to share his vision of an eco-efficient aviation industry, Boeing shifted green pressure onto the engine makers. (Press Release, Reuters via Planet Ark) Read more... Biodiesel Garbage Trucks Clean up the Planet, Too Many of the garbage trucks that roar through some of the biggest U.S. cities are cleaning up their act by burning biodiesel which can reduce toxic tailpipe emissions. (Reuters via Planet Ark) Read more... Europe's Hotels Could Save Nearly Half Billion Euros from Efficient Lighting, Study Shows Figures show a simple switch of lightbulbs could yield annual savings of more than 450 million euros in running costs, an energy consumption equal to more than 2 million metric tons of CO2. (Press Release) Read more... Easyjet's New Aircraft Design Promises to Halve Emissions British low-cost airline easyJet has unveiled its vision of a shorthaul aircraft that it hopes will generate 50% less CO2 than its current planes and can be delivered by 2015. (Reuters via Planet Ark) Read more... |
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