September 22, 2012 - The Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l (ALPA), hails yesterday’s passage by the U.S. Senate of The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme Prohibition Act of 2012 (S.1956), which provides the U.S. Secretary of Transportation with the authority to protect U.S. aircraft operators and their employees from the market-distorting effects of the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme.

“Protecting U.S. airlines and their employees from this harmful tax has been an extremely high priority for ALPA because of the scheme’s potential to cost U.S. airlines $3.1 billion over the next eight years and threaten airline pilots’ jobs,” said Capt. Lee Moak, ALPA’s president. “ALPA thanks Senators John Thune (R-SD) and Claire McCaskill (D-MO) for their steadfast leadership in advancing this bill.”
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