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United Airlines will soon become the first airline to regularly use lower-carbon jet fuel in its plane engines at a US airport outside California. United said it’s purchasing up to 1 million gallons of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from Neste, a major producer, to use at Chicago O’Hare International Airport through the end of 2024. SAF is expected to make up 3 percent of United’s total fuel usage at O’Hare by the end of the year. In total, 24.5 million gallons of SAF were used in the U.S. in 2023 — much more than the year before, but a small amount compared with the overall U.S. jet fuel use of approximately 69.3 million gallons every day. Still, SAF is picking up steam.