NEW WINDSOR, N.Y., Nov. 21 (UPI) -- The New York area's airport operator says it plans to make the region's fourth passenger hub the world's first carbon negative jetport.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey -- operator of Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark Liberty airports -- plans to reduce "greenhouse gas" emissions at Stewart International Airport in Newburgh, N.Y., by 50 percent by 2012, Executive Director Anthony Shorris said. The intention is for the airport to eventually produce more energy than it expends, he said.
"... We will begin to explore new technologies for things like zero emission, renewable on-site electricity generation, the use of renewable fuel in on-site vehicles and the adoption of highly efficient end-use lighting, space conditioning and refrigeration systems," he said at a regional planning dinner."
He said Stewart's advances would help Kennedy, Newark and other major airports around the world reduce emissions believed to contribute to global warming, The Hudson Valley Business Journal reported.
Shorris said the Port Authority would partner with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a research university in Troy, N.Y., to identify and reduce Stewart's industrial emissions.
