Private jets polluted more than all flights from Heathrow, study finds | A new study found that the United States was responsible for 55 percent of the pollution emitted by private jets globally.
Private jets polluted more than all flights from Heathrow, study finds | A new study found that the United States was responsible for 55 percent of the pollution emitted by private jets globally.
“It’s pretty well known that in a typical year, private jets are responsible for about 2 percent of aviation emissions,” said Dan Rutherford, the group’s senior director of research and a co-author of the new report. “What we’ve done for the first time is, we’ve basically used flight trajectory data to break that out into the individual contributions of airports and countries.”
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