United Airlines can show off their compostable plates and quinoa wraps, but they can’t hide the dirty truth of a dirty energy industry. In USA Today, travel writer Dawn Gilbertson gushed about United’s demonstration “Flight for the Planet”—a one-off PR move showing off what the company called “the most eco-friendly commercial flight of its kind…
Supersonic flights are twice as polluting—even with “green” fuel
Despite aviation industry hype about a new wave of supersonic planes, they’re still likely to be much more fuel inefficient than conventionally-polluting planes. New research from the ICCT shows exactly how bad it might be. The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) estimates that a supersonic flight from New York to London might have between…