Gina McCarthy meets with airline bosses to discuss CO2

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Top White House climate officials are meeting virtually today with airline executives to talk about how the sector can reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. Gina McCarthy, the domestic climate adviser to President Biden, and National Economic Council Director Brian Deese are leading the meeting with the CEOs of major airlines. Reuters reported earlier this week that participants would include American Airlines Group Inc., United Airlines Inc., Delta Air Lines Inc, Southwest Airlines Co. and others. It's the latest industry-focused meeting held by McCarthy since Biden issued an executive order putting her in charge of a new National Climate Task Force. Reuters first reported the meeting with airline executives. The interagency task force is formulating new U.S. commitments to the Paris Agreement by April 22 to show how the U.S. plans to cut emissions by 2030. McCarthy met previously with executives of major utilities. And on Wednesday, she, Deese and Pete Buttigieg, the Transportation secretary, met with "more than a dozen automotive industry manufacturers" and labor leaders from United Auto Workers and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, according to the White House.