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Recent Highlights
June 5, 2025
SPJE Webinar on Important Updates & Next Steps
Thank you to the nearly 100 attendees who participated in this dynamic webinar! Here’s the recording link.
A key takeaway from the webinar: Stay poised to submit public comments on the SDEIR.
Expected filing date – summer or early fall. We’ll keep you posted!
June 4, 2025
Great interview with Parke Wilde on Arlington Cable TV!
Here is the YouTube link.
Parke talks about private jets & their climate and environmental justice impacts, the proposed Hanscom expansion, XR Boston’s Hanscom tarmac protest in April 2024 at which he was arrested, and the Faith Resolution opposing private jet expansion recently adopted by the Missions and Social Action Committee that he serves on at the Calvary Church United Methodist in Arlington.
May 2025
Recent News on Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAFs)
The ‘Green’ Aviation Fuel That Would Increase Carbon Emissions by Michael Grunwald • May 27, 2025, Yale publication
“The U.S. agriculture lobby has long promoted ethanol for cars. If President Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ becomes law, the industry would be given tax credits for producing crop-based fuel for planes, too, despite evidence it would spur deforestation and increase emissions.”
Answering Questions about SAF Benefits • Save Our Heritage, May 25, 2025
Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) are claimed to reduce jet CO2 emissions by up to 80%. Yet it is also argued that SAFs are not a “clean” aviation solution. How can these contradictory claims be reconciled?
Billionaires Polluting Massachusetts at Hanscom Field • Jim & Margery Show, GBH • May 6, 2025
Chuck Collins from the Institute for Policy Studies discusses the uber-wealthy forces trying to expand Bedford’s Hanscom Field to accommodate more fossil-fueled private jets. Video & Audio access below.
VIDEO Access at the two-hour & 5-minute mark here
AUDIO Access at 20-minute mark here
SPJE Faith Resolution Campaign - Read more here!
Resolutions opposing private jet expansion have been adopted by faith communities across the state, most recently by the Calvary Church United Methodist, Arlington, Missions and Social Action Committee.
Stay poised for Hanscom Developers’ SDEIR report -
expected to be filed late summer or early fall
Last June, EEA Secretary Tepper rejected the Hanscom developers’ DEIR (Draft Environmental Impact Report) after receiving over 1,500 public comments, 13,500 petition signatures, and an important independent analysis that refuted the developers’ claims. Tepper instructed the developers to go back to the drawing board to produce an SDEIR (Supplementary DEIR). The SDEIR is expected to be filed late summer or early fall. Massport is scheduling public presentations for May. Visit this home page frequently to stay up to date.
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