Revealed: US airlines lobbied EU over its plan to monitor plane emissions

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Lobbyists from Airlines for America argued against European Commission draft rules to report cocktail of pollutants, freedom of information requests showUS airlines lobbied against plans to monitor the damage wrought by planet-heating pollutants pumped out of planes in a previously undisclosed meeting with the European Commission, the Guardian can reveal.Lobbyists from Airlines for America and some of its member companies met representatives of the European Commission’s climate team in May in a meeting that is not logged on the participants’ pages in the EU transparency register. The commission said the meeting took place at a technical level and that it is under no obligation to publish details of meetings at lower levels of its hierarchy. Continue reading…

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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/28/revealed-us-airlines-lobbied-eu-over-its-plan-to-monitor-plane-emissions

Author : Ajit Niranjan

Publish date : 2024-08-28 18:00:08

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