An interesting item in the Commercial Appeal of Memphis, my hometown newspaper:
FedEx issued its first Global Citizenship Report Wednesday, touting plans for big cuts in pollution by jets and delivery trucks. . . . On the environmental front, the company aims to cut carbon dioxide emissions by FedEx Express jets by 20 percent within less [...]
Posts Tagged ‘energy’
Airline to cut carbon emissions! . . . by doing what it was already doing anyway
Posted in Evan's Fiskings, tagged business, energy, environment, fedex on November 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Southwest comments on Stop Oil Speculation Now
Posted in Evan's News and Quick Takes, tagged business, energy, southwest on October 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
DALLAS — During the summer, the Air Transport Association and its member airlines launched a campaign to “Stop Oil Speculation Now.” I (and the rest of the aviation blogosphere) commented on it, arguing that limiting “speculation” on oil futures wouldn’t bring down the price of oil. Mark Ashley added that he was surprised about the [...]
“Stop Oil Speculation Now” won’t make oil cheaper
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged budget airlines, business, congress, energy, network airlines, regulation on July 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m going to resist the airline lobby’s link bait for their Stop Oil Speculation Now website (google it if you care), but the airline CEOs’ letter calling for passengers to lobby Congress for tighter regulation of oil futures “speculation” deserves some attention. The aviation blogosphere sees through this as the bad proposal it is (see [...]
ATA conference call on airlines’ environmental performance
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged ata, congress, energy, environment, network airlines, regulation on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Since fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions correlate nearly exactly, U.S. airlines have a financial incentive to improve their environmental performance. According to officials at the Air Transport Association, the national trade group for commercial airlines, environmental performance continues to improve and other initiatives are on deck.
Speaking in a conference call with several aviation bloggers, [...]
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