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.  Read More    

Best Practices

ACI-NA and others formed the Sustainable Aviation Guidance Alliance (SAGA) as a broad volunteer coalition of aviation interests formed in 2008 to assist airport operators of all sizes in planning, implementing, and maintaining a sustainability program. SAGA has undertaken an effort to consolidate existing guidelines and practices into a comprehensive, searchable resource that can be tailored to the unique requirements of individual airports of all sizes and in different climates/regions in the United States. Its chief product is a database with more than 900 proven best practices..

News Clips from Centerlines

• Sustainable Aviation Guidance Alliance (December 2009)
• Airports take charge as climate change looms. (June 2009)
• Recycling Takes Hold at Airports (March 2009)
• Measuring Greenhouse Gases at Sea-Tac (September 2008)
• Wind Turbines at Boston Logan (June 2008)
• 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:

• Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI)
• ACI-NA's 2009 Environmental Brochure Going Greener
• ACI-NA's 2007 Environmental Brochure Going Green 
• Enviro. Aero
• Presentations from March 2008 seminar, Aviation and the Environment, co-sponsored by ACI-NA.
• Environmental Achievement Award Winners.