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Europe’s Overreach on Plane Emissions Won’t Clean the Sky: View
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The European Court of Justice made a bad situation a little worse yesterday when it a law allowing the European Union to charge international airlines for their carbon emissions.
The regulations require all commercial aircraft taking off or landing in 30 European nations to participate in the EU’s emission-trading system, known as ETS. China, India, Russia, the U.S. and at least 22 other countries have protested, correctly in our view, that the ETS represents an inappropriate extraterritorial application of national law.