Kerry Lynch stepped into the role of editor of the&nbsp;Aviation International News&nbsp;monthly magazine in May 2022 after serving with&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;for eight years. She joined&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;in December 2014 as a senior editor covering Washington and business aviation news. She has also served on Convention News teams, including as editor of&nbsp;HAI Convention News. Lynch previously spent 25 years with Aviation Week. During her time there, she reported for and later steered&nbsp;The Weekly of Business Aviation, oversaw business aviation content on the&nbsp;Aviation Week Intelligence Network, served on the&nbsp;Show News&nbsp;staff, and held roles as the Washington columnist for&nbsp;Business &amp; Commercial Aviation&nbsp;and&nbsp;Overhaul &amp; Maintenance&nbsp;monthly magazines. In 2021 she was honored with the National Business Aviation Association Platinum Wing Award for lifetime achievement in journalism and was the 2004 recipient of the National Air Transportation Association’s Aviation Journalism Excellence Award. She also has been a recipient of an Aerospace Media Award for business aviation (2022) and NBAA Gold Wing Award (2003, 2024). Lynch graduated from The Ohio State University with a bachelor of arts in journalism.

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NBAA is concerned that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s <a href="https://www.regulations.gov/docket?D=EPA-HQ-OAR-2018-0276">proposed CO2 standard </a>for aircraft emissions includes certain data-reporting requirements that don't align&nbsp;with global standards and would expose proprietary data.

 


<a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2020-08-24/us-epa-publishes-aircraft-emissions-proposal">The EPA released </a><a href="https://www.regulations.gov/docket?D=EPA-HQ-OAR-2018-0276">the CO2 proposal </a><a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2020-08-24/us-epa-publishes-aircraft-emissions-proposal">on August 20</a> in a move to regulate aircraft carbon emissions for the first time. The proposal would require new type designs to meet the prescribed standards for aircraft weighing more than 132,270 pounds on Jan. 1, 2020, and on Jan. 1, 2023 for turbojet aircraft weighing more than 12,500 pounds. In-production standards would apply beginning Jan. 1, 2028.

 


“With this proposed rule the EPA is moving toward a global initiative to adopt the ICAO CO2 standard,” said NBAA director of&nbsp;technical operations Stewart D’Leon,&nbsp;<a href="https://nbaa.org/wp-content/uploads/aircraft-operations/environment/20201013-NBAA-Comments-NPRM-EPA-HQ-OAR-2018-0276.pdf">who submitted comments</a> on the proposal. NBAA supports the effort, he said, but industry leaders are concerned with certain aspects that differ from the ICAO standard.&nbsp;

 


D’Leon pointed to EPA’s proposed requirement that manufacturers submit reference geometric factor (RGF) data, which would enable outside interests to access “highly commercially sensitive data” such as specific air range (SAR) points. With RGF data, competitors could easily calculate the&nbsp;SAR,&nbsp;he said. “That SAR data is proprietary and if that becomes made available to the public, then that’s a real concern for manufacturers,” he said, adding that the concern led to ICAO excluding this requirement.

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