http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/volcano-crisis-could-delay-emissions-regulation-airline-chief-says/?ref=science

Connie Hedegaard, the Europan Union’s climate commissioner, was quick to reject that suggestion.

“Although I know it’s a difficult situation for the airlines, I think that that is not an appropriate excuse for saying, ‘Why should we not be excluded here?’ ” she said in an interview.

The air transport group “has always argued against this piece of European legislation and now they are just trying to find a new argument,” she said.