Air travel
United’s $100M fund to invest in startups making sustainable jet fuel
United Airlines is launching an investment vehicle to support proven producers and emerging developers of sustainable aviation fuel in a bid to curb emissions.
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Air travel
A hydrogen-powered airplane just made a record-setting test flight
Startup Universal Hydrogen says it successfully flew a 40-seat passenger plane powered mainly by hydrogen during a test flight in Washington.
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Can used cooking oil really decarbonize the aviation industry?
The greasy truth behind sustainable aviation fuels.
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A giant solar microgrid is coming to New York City’s JFK airport
Some 13,000 solar panels will cover a new terminal being built at JFK, giving the airport a clean power supply that can keep operations running even in a blackout.
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Air travel
Hydrogen-powered aviation reaches milestone with ZeroAvia's flight
The California startup's 19-seat hydrogen-electric prototype plane successfully completed a short test flight as efforts to curb air-travel emissions scale up.
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Air travel
The smelly, greasy truth about how sustainable aviation fuel is made
Join our reporter as she tags along with a truck driver dumpster-diving for used cooking oil — all in the name of curbing aircraft emissions.
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Air travel
United plans to electrify airport operations with sodium-ion batteries
United Airlines is making a strategic equity investment in sodium-ion battery maker Natron Energy as the aviation industry works to curb emissions.
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Air travel
Major airlines are teaming up to tackle planet-warming plane contrails
American, Southwest and United are joining with Airbus, Boeing, RMI and researchers in an effort to mitigate heat-trapping condensation trails.
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Air travel
Iceland: Land of Fire and Ice — and 'carbon-free' flights?
Icelandair plans to use only hydrogen- and battery-powered planes for in-country routes by the end of this decade.
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Air travel
193 countries pledge to slash air-travel emissions by 2050
It's the first international agreement of its kind for the hard-to-decarbonize aviation industry, but critics say the nonbinding target lacks teeth.
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Air travel
CO2-to-vodka startup Air Company aims higher with aviation fuel
The company uses captured carbon dioxide to make sustainable aviation fuel at its reactor in New York City. JetBlue and Virgin Atlantic have pledged huge orders.
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