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Trump moves to regulate greenhouse emissions from planes, but critics skeptical

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Maxine Joselow, E&E NewsOriginally published by E&E NewsAndrew Wheeler, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), today announced that the agency would limit greenhouse gas emissions from airplanes for the first time in U.S.

history.The proposed rule represents a rare step to reduce planet-warming pollution by EPA, which has typically weakened or delayed climate rules under President Donald Trump.It’s also historic in nature.

The United States has never regulated carbon dioxide from planes, in part because the international aviation sector was omitted from the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement.But while industry groups cheered today’s announcement, environmentalists slammed the proposal as too weak to achieve.

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