The Environment

Airports are large, complex operations subject to an array of environmental regulations. As the demand for air travel continues to grow, the potential for adverse environmental impacts will increase.

To address these impacts, airport operators across the United States and Canada are working proactively to reduce the negative effects that aviation growth can have on the environment. Still, much of the impact is outside airport control.

As a result, ACI-NA and its members are working collaboratively to work with international, federal and state/local entities, manufacturers and airlines to respond to these environmental concerns.
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Best Practices

Port of Seattle's director of aviation environmental programs, Elizabeth Leavitt, outlined the efforts of the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to Managing A Green Airport at the Aviation and the Environment conference in March 2008, which was co-sponsored by ACI-NA.

News Clips from Centerlines

• The Deicing Debate - Will EPA actions increase airport costs? (April 2008)
  

• O'Hare Modernization: Taking green to a new level (January 2008)
  

• Enviro.aero: ACI joins with industry to promote green efforts in aviation (Fall 2007)
  
• LAWA Sustainability (Summer 2007)
• Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasures - Revised (Spring 2007)
• DFW: Environmental Star (Spring 2006)
• Deicing Pollutants Probe (Fall 2005)

Other resources:

• ACI-NA's Environmental Brochure "Going Green" 
• Enviro. Aero
  
• Presentations from March 2008 seminar, Aviation and the Environment, co-sponsored by ACI-NA.
• Environmental Achievement Award Winners.