Private jets are awful for the climate. It’s time to tax the rich who fly in them | Edward J Markey

Private flights pollute up to 14 times more than commercial ones - yet are taxed less. Let's change that

The climate crisis is not in transit, it's arrived at the gate. It's in our skies, our water, and our land - with record-shattering heat waves, increasingly severe wildfires and flooding from superstorms and rising seas.

We have no time for delays. Tackling this crisis and protecting frontline environmental justice communities will take all of us. And the tax-dodging ultra-wealthy need to stop fueling the problem and start supporting first-class solutions.

Edward J Markey is a US senator from Massachusetts