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By Laura Gibbons and Brandon Bowersox-Johnson Special to The Seattle Times Despite The Seattle Times’ editorial board’s enthusiasm for sustainable aviation fuels, SAF remain a dangerous fantasy. If we buy into this myth, we will continue expanding air travel instead of what we actually must do: significantly reduce flights until real solutions are in place.

By Isabella Breda  Seattle Times staff reporter As Seattleites awoke to a hazy concoction of wildfire and Fourth of July firework smoke Wednesday morning, a new study dropped, revealing that some neighborhoods in the city are regularly subject to worse air pollution, reflective of historic racist policies. Those neighborhoods, according to research published Wednesday from the University of Washington,

Haze from wildfire and Fourth of July firework smoke sets in Wednesday on the Seattle skyline. (Luke Johnson / The Seattle Times) By  Isabella Breda  Seattle Times staff reporter As Seattleites awoke to a hazy concoction of wildfire and Fourth of July firework smoke Wednesday morning, a new study dropped, revealing that some neighborhoods in the city

Gov. Jay Inslee speaks with Sheila Remes, Boeing vice president of environmental sustainability, as they prepare to speak at the Paris Air Show on a panel about aviation sustainability on June 20, 2023. (Dominic Gates / The Seattle Times) By  The Seattle Times editorial board For the first time since the pandemic, the Paris Air

By Irina Anghel Bloomberg Three years after the pandemic closed down offices around the world, the remote-work revolution has morphed into a tug of war between frustrated bosses and fed-up staff. While workers don’t want to give up flexibility, leaders want teams back to boost collaboration and avoid a productivity slump. The impasse is the

By  Dominic Gates  Seattle Times aerospace reporter Under intense political pressure, the aviation industry has set itself a daunting challenge to decarbonize flying by 2050 and laid out a road map to get there through technological innovation. For environmentalists, especially in Europe, that prolonged switch to clean energy technology is not good enough. “It takes

By KENDRA PIERRE-LOUIS Bloomberg As tranquil instrumental music plays over gauzy images of nature, a woman’s voice-over begins. “Isn’t it a paradox,” she wonders aloud, “that the love for this world that gets us out in it, sometimes leaves behind the things that can harm it? Flight by flight, we broaden our views. We gain

By  Adam Smith  and  Hamdi Mohamed Special to The Seattle Times For the first time in five years, Congress is working its way through the reauthorization process for the Federal Aviation Administration.  It is imperative that Congress uses this opportunity to better incorporate the voices of communities affected by aviation in the federal aviation system.

  By  Dominic Gates  Seattle Times aerospace reporter Gov. Jay Inslee, burnishing his environmental credentials, will speak at the Paris Air Show Monday and Tuesday about Washington state’s lead role promoting sustainable aviation in the response to climate change. He’ll have the attention of industry leaders in Paris, including Airbus and Boeing, who are increasingly

By  Julie Johnsson Bloomberg Boeing Co. predicts airlines around the world will add 42,595 jets valued at about $8 trillion over the next two decades, even as concerns over climate change affect the way consumers travel. The U.S. plane-maker’s latest tally of industrywide deliveries over the next 20 years takes into account growing activism over