Study quantifies premature deaths in Europe resulting from Volkswagen’s excess emissions

In September 2015, the German Volkswagen Group, the world’s largest car producer, admitted to having installed…
Piston engine aircraft pose a health risk

They may seem innocuous enough, those small planes used for weekend getaways, flight training, small freight…
Measuring exposure to pollution

What’s the best way to measure human exposure to urban pollution? Typically, cities do so by…

Topic: Policy & Economics & Operations

Cost Optimization of US Sustainable Aviation Fuel Supply Chain Under Different Policy Constraints

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Walter T. Kelso III

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Life cycle greenhouse gas emissions and costs of production of diesel and jet fuel from municipal solid waste

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Pooja Suresh, Robert Malina, Mark Staples, Sebastien Lizin, Hakan Olcay, Damian Blazy, Matthew Pearlson, and Steven R. H. Barrett

Environmental Science & Technology 52, 21, 12055-12065

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.7b04277
Using Dynamic Relative Climate Impact curves to quantify the climate impact of bioenergy production systems over time

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Sierk de Jong, Mark Staples, Carla Grobler, Vassilis Daioglou, Robert Malina, Steven Barrett, Ric Hoefnagels, Andre Faaij, and H Junginger

Global Change Biology Bioenergy 11:427–443

https://doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.12573
Energy, economic, and environmental prospects of all-electric aircraft

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Andreas W. Schäfer, Steven R.H. Barrett, Khan Doyme, Lynnette M. Dray, Albert R. Gnadt, Rod Self, Aidan O’Sullivan, Athanasios P. Synodinos, and Antonio J. Torija

Nature Energy 4, 160–166

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-018-0294-x
The co-pollutant cost of carbon emissions: an analysis of the US electric power generation sector

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Irene C Dedoussi, Florian Allroggen, Robert Flanagan, Tyler Hansen, Brandon Taylor, Steven R H Barrett and James K Boyce

Environmental Research Letters 14 094003

https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab34e3
Reducing the air quality impacts of aircraft activity at airports

Akshay Ashok

PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSpace @ MIT, June 2016

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105005
Aviation Environmental Policy and Issues of Timescale

Philip J. Wolfe

PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSpace @ MIT, August 2015

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101493
Air quality impacts of UK airport capacity expansion

Steven Barrett, Steve Yim, Marc Stettler and Sebastian Eastham

A report by the Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment at MIT in collaboration with the Energy Efficient Cities Initiative at Cambridge University

http://nehalem001.mit.edu/wordpress2/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/LAE-2012-010-R-v1.pdf
Climate policy and the airline industry: Emissions trading and renewable jet fuel

Dominic A. T. McConnachie

SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSpace @ MIT, June 2012

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72902
Networked Control of Aircraft Operations at Airports and in Terminal Areas

Harshad Khadilkar

SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSpace @ MIT, June 2013

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/85761

Study quantifies premature deaths in Europe resulting from Volkswagen’s excess emissions

Piston engine aircraft pose a health risk

Measuring exposure to pollution

Topic: Policy & Economics & Operations

Cost Optimization of US Sustainable Aviation Fuel Supply Chain Under Different Policy Constraints

Life cycle greenhouse gas emissions and costs of production of diesel and jet fuel from municipal solid waste

Using Dynamic Relative Climate Impact curves to quantify the climate impact of bioenergy production systems over time

Energy, economic, and environmental prospects of all-electric aircraft

The co-pollutant cost of carbon emissions: an analysis of the US electric power generation sector

Reducing the air quality impacts of aircraft activity at airports

Aviation Environmental Policy and Issues of Timescale

Air quality impacts of UK airport capacity expansion

Climate policy and the airline industry: Emissions trading and renewable jet fuel

Networked Control of Aircraft Operations at Airports and in Terminal Areas