| U.S. airlines sue EU over emissions trading |
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According to an announcement on aviainform.org, the United States Air Transport Association (ATA) - which represents US air carriers - and three US airlines sre to sue the European Union over its Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) writes Dow Jones Newswire. The ATA, along with American Airlines, Continental Airlines and United Airlines, has launched a court action in London after stating that the ETS "violated the US-EU bilateral Air Transport Agreement of 2007 and the Kyoto Protocol". The ATA says it is necessary "in order to preserve our members' right to challenge implementation of the EU ETS as applied to aviation. Source: Dow Jones Germany, March 18, 2010 www.dowjones.de |
