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  • 2024-06-12

    WA carbon auction demand drops, prices remain lower

    By Conrad Swanson and Isabella Breda Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The project is funded in part by The Bullitt Foundation, Jim and Birte Falconer, Mike and Becky Hughes, University of Washington and Walker Family Foundation, and its fiscal sponsor
  • 2023-05-30

    Berrin v. Delta Air Lines: Class Action Complaint

    A class action lawsuit filed in May 2023 against Delta Air Lines alleges that the airline falsely marketed itself as the 'world's first carbon-neutral airline' since March 2020. The complaint argues that Delta's reliance on voluntary carbon offsets did not actually eliminate its net carbon emissions, as those offsets suffer from inaccurate accounting, non-additional effects, and impermanent results. Plaintiff Mayanna Berrin seeks to represent a nationwide class of Delta ticket purchasers who allegedly paid premium prices based on these misleading environmental claims.
  • 2020-01-01

    13 Steps for a Just Transport System and for Rapidly Reducing Aviation

    The Stay Grounded network outlines 13 steps to reduce aviation's climate and community impacts, calling for a shift to trains and other low-carbon transport, an end to airport expansion, and the elimination of industry subsidies and tax breaks. The document highlights how airport noise, pollution, and land displacement disproportionately harm local communities and Global South populations who rarely fly. It also rejects carbon offsets and unproven technologies as false solutions, instead demanding binding emissions limits and democratic oversight of transport policy.