ATA Sues To Halt EU ETS

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Three U.S. airlines and the Air Transport Association filed suit in a U.K. court Dec. 16 seeking to block implementation of Europe's greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme (ETS).

The suit was filed by ATA, Continental, American and United against the U.K. Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. It is the first legal action brought by U.S airlines in a European court to halt the inclusion of international aviation in the ETS. "We brought this action in order to preserve our members' rights to challenge the implementation of the EU ETS as applied to aviation," said ATA spokeswoman Victoria Day.