Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2023/12/15/aviation-climate-biden-tax-credits/
This article considers the efforts towards making the airline industry more eco-friendly. While the Biden administration is offering subsidies for fuels based on agricultural products, environmental experts are predicting that this may not be all that effective, as some of the components in “sustainable aviation fuel” might even make the issue of climate change worse. These scientists are arguing that incentivizing large-scale production of biofuels might take up so much land that aviation companies are highly likely to turn to deforestation. With our current technology, only small planes are able to run on batteries, so it is a matter of predicting what policies are most efficient to implement for the future of our planet and the economy.