January 15, 2021: On Friday, Sierra Club, Center for Biological Diversity, and Friends of the Earth sued the Trump administration over the first airplane climate emission standards, which do nothing to actually reduce greenhouse gas pollution.
The EPA standards finalized late last month lag behind existing technology by more than 10 years. Planes are already the third-largest source of transportation-related greenhouse emissions and are among the fastest growing sources of climate pollution. Over the past decade, airplane emissions rose by 44% and were set to triple again by 2050 ahead of the coronavirus pandemic.
Sierra Club is represented by Earthjustice attorney Sarah Burt and outside counsel Vera Pardee, with support from ELP Research Analysts Lou Finazzo and Miriam Raffel-Smith. Read more about the legal action and Sierra Club’s advocacy in the official press release here.