Stop using ICAO to raise aircraft emission standards

Research notes

• Corrected 2026-09-01. The 2026-08-27 search recorded that “no EPA rule, proposal or notice in this window revisits the aircraft engine standards that implement ICAO’s carbon dioxide standard”. The search behind that was sound — nothing has published — but it was a negative about the Federal Register, not about EPA’s agenda, and 2060-AW85’s own page says Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No, RIN Data Printed in the FR: No. The earlier event was replaced, not followed by a new one.
• The judgment made here: the Quote’s ask is addressed to a forum (“stop the use of ICAO”), and an agenda entry cannot commit the United States to a posture at ICAO. What it does name is the domestic instrument through which ICAO raised standards on airplanes — the 40 CFR part 1030 standards EPA wrote to match ICAO’s CO2 standard, which this Recommendation’s own object and the first note both treat as the thing at issue. Reconsidering them is the executive action available for this ask, so it is read as naming the object rather than as a subject-area near miss.
• Still nothing on the forum itself: White House presidential actions among the federal records we keep and search include no order or memorandum on ICAO, and a search of those records for the International Civil Aviation Organization returns only Department of Transportation, PHMSA and FAA records.