But Relaxing The Law Would Require Action On The Parts Of Other
Governments
A day after China announced that its carriers would be forbidden
to pay any charges under the European Union Emissions Trading
Scheme (EU-ETS) without Beijing’s permission. the European
Union said it could suspend parts of a new law requiring airlines
to account for their greenhouse gas emissions ... but only if
countries were to make clear progress this year toward establishing
a global emissions control system.
A Washington Post blogger likens the Essential Air
Service (EAS) program to a vampire, saying that there had been a
bipartisan effort to "drive a stake into it." The EAS pays airlines
to fly routes to airports in smaller cities, subsidizing ticket
costs to make it possible for those services to continue.
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