Whitehouse floats bill boosting aviation biofuel to cut GHGs

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) is introducing a bill to boost the aviation sector’s uptake of biofuels, in order to drive down greenhouse gas emissions faster from aircraft, amid the industry’s slow adoption of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and a lack of other current options to decarbonize the sector. Whitehouse’s bill , introduced May 13 and dubbed the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Act, is the Senate companion to draft House legislation introduced Feb. 3 by Rep. Julia Brownley (D-CA), H.R. 741, which...