Center for Biological Diversity filed 4 comments on this docket between Oct 19, 2020 and Oct 19, 2020. 26 other organizations filed here. The comment window closed 2108d ago.
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See attached file. The undersigned 112 environmental, health and community groups write on behalf of our millions of members and supporters to urge you to withdraw the Environmental Protection Agency's do-nothing proposed rule for greenhouse emissions from commercial aircraft (85 Fed. Reg. 51,556). We ask that you quickly replace the proposed rule with strong, technology-forcing standards that rapidly decarbonize the aviation industry in line with what climate science and equity demand.
The Center for Biological Diversity ("Center") submits the attached letter and report to supplement the longer letter submitted by the Center, Earthjustice, on behalf of the Sierra Club and Friends of the Earth, and the Natural Resources Defense Council.
These comments are submitted jointly by the Center for Biological Diversity, Earthjustice, on behalf of the Sierra Club and Friends of the Earth, and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Cited references were sent to the Docket Center for inclusion in the docket via correspondence with the EPA contact listed in the proposed rule and via USPS Priority Express mail, with delivery on Oct. 19, 2020.
This rulemaking follows on the EPA's final endangerment and cause or contribute findings for aircraft GHG emissions, which was published on August 15, 2016 (81 FR 54422). As a result of these positive findings, the EPA is obligated under section 231 of the Clean Air Act to set emission standards applicable to GHG emissions from the classes of aircraft engines used in certain types of aircraft covered in the finding. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) adopted international aircraft CO2 standards in 2017, and domestically the EPA anticipates adopting GHG standards that would be at least as stringent as ICAO’s standards.
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