Bob Hobbi, the founder of ServiceElements, writes about business aviation's journey to a clean future and corrects the record clouded by recent protests.

To reduce its environmental impact and achieve its goal of net-zero emissions, the entire business aviation industry is evolving. Even companies that do not manufacture or operate aircraft are changing how they do business – companies such as risk management service provider MedAire.

Farmers feed the nation and the world, and with new technology and innovation, farmers will fuel flight as well.

In the quest to reduce carbon emissions in our economy, few challenges loom larger than the aviation industry.

The June 21 opinion piece (“Taxpayers shouldn’t subsidize billionaires’ jet fuel”) about the value of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) needlessly distorts the facts about the fuels’ potential, and vilifies an aviation sector that is essential to the nation’s economy and transportation system.

The business aviation community’s sustainability leadership was front and center during a third annual Capitol Hill fly-in that mobilized an energized group of nearly 70 young industry professionals from across the country for meetings with lawmakers to highlight the industry’s many societal benefits.