Boeing’s 702SP all-electric propulsion satellite for Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS). Photo: Boeing

[Via Satellite 06-09-2014] Boeing released its annual environmental report, which provides an update on the company’s environmental targets and its progress in sustainable growth and environmental preservation efforts. Boeing achieved its first five-year set of absolute-reduction targets, and has set new 2017 targets for greenhouse gas emissions, water consumption, solid waste to landfill and hazardous waste generation.

Highlights of the report include the launch of two new fuel-efficient airplanes, the 777X and the 787-10, and building the world’s first all-electric propulsion satellite. Boeing’s liquid hydrogen-powered Phantom Eye, a High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) and communications, was granted experimental aircraft status from the U.S. Air Force. Other efforts include developing and introducing commercialized sustainable aviation biofuel, including “green diesel,” as well as actions to help attain zero growth in greenhouse gas emissions, such as the solar tubes used in painting the company’s aircraft.