There is a local battle over airport expansion with global implications on climate and inequality.
A coalition of northeast climate justice activists is vigorously opposing the expansion of airport facilities for private jets. Hanscom Field, located 14 miles from Boston, is the largest private jet airport in New England. A group of private developers, led by venture capitalist Jeffrey Leerink, a former executive of now-collapsed Silicon Valley Bank, has proposed a massive expansion project to triple Hanscom’s capacity to serve private jets.
” Among jets with public tracking information, the 20 most frequent Hanscom private jet flyers field took 3,240 flights, both arrivals and departures. These 20 aircraft accounted for over 10% of all Hanscom private jet flights during the 18 months we studied and 14% of total emissions. These 20 frequent flyers burned an estimated 14,930 tons of carbon emissions during this period. Among the top twenty were billionaires John Fish, CEO of Suffolk Construction and Arthur S.
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