Sec. 704. Airline carbon emissions offsets and goals
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Not later than 90 days after the enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall require each air carrier receiving assistance under section 101, to fully offset the annual carbon emissions of such air carriers for domestic flights beginning in 2025. In issuing regulations and guidance to carry out to paragraph (1), the Administrator shall develop standards and practices to ensure the use of carbon offsets by air carriers are real, additional, permanent, verifiable, and not double counted and align with standards, recommended practices, assessment tools, and guidance agreed to by the United States pursuant to the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme Prohibition Act of 2011 ( Public Law 112–200 ) for addressing aircraft emissions.
An air carrier covered under this subsection shall take reasonable and continuous measures to ensure any carbon offsets credited to, or purchased by, such carrier continue to be accurate. The Administrator shall annually certify that an air carrier’s carbon offsetting program aligns with the standards developed pursuant to paragraph (2). The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, with the concurrence of the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, shall require each air carrier receiving assistance under section 101 to— make and achieve a binding commitment to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions attributable to the domestic flights of such air carrier in every calendar year, beginning with 2021, on a path consistent with a 25 percent reduction in the aviation sector’s emissions from 2019 levels by 2035, and a 50 percent reduction in the sector’s emissions from 2019 levels by 2050, applying the standards, recommended practices, and guidance agreed to by the United States pursuant to the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme Prohibition Act of 2011 ( Public Law 112–200 ) for addressing aircraft emissions; and submit to the Administrator, annually, a report containing a plan for meeting the commitment described in subparagraph
(A)and evidence of compliance with such commitment, including the annual emissions of the air carrier, use of alternative fuels, and any other means of implementing such commitment. Not later than 5 years after the date of enactment of this Act, and not less frequently than every 5 years thereafter, the Administrator shall certify each air carrier covered under this subsection that is taking such actions as are necessary to meet the requirements established pursuant to paragraph (1). With respect to any air carrier covered under this subsection that the Administrator does not certify under subparagraph (A), the Administrator, in consultation with such air carrier, shall, not later than 180 days after the last date on which a certification could have been made under such subparagraph, develop a plan to ensure such air carrier meets the requirements established pursuant to paragraph (1). The Secretary shall make publicly available the reports described in paragraph (1). Nothing in this subsection shall affect or alter the authorities and responsibilities to address greenhouse gases under any other provision of law. In issuing regulations to carry out to subsection
(b)and (c), the Administrator shall create a mechanism that ensures foreign air carriers that enter the national airspace system have an equivalent emissions reductions target or programs such that the United States airline industry is not at a competitive disadvantage.
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Sec. 704
Airline carbon emissions offsets and goals
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