Taylor Swift Responds To Topping The List of Celebrity Private Jet Offenders

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Kylie Jenner has been taking heat for a recent report on celebrities’ use of private jets and their impact on the environment, which reported that she once took her jet on a 17-minute flight between two destinations she could have traversed by car in just 45 minutes. READ MORE: Kylie Jenner Hit With Backlash For Bragging About Her & Travis Scott’s Private Jets While some are declaring Jenner a “climate criminal,” she didn’t even make the top 10 list of the worst celebrity offenders when it comes to overusing private jets, taken from a study performed by sustainability-driven digital marketing agency Yard, which found that the average celebrity has created 3256.36 tons of CO2 emissions this year, which is more than 465 times more than the average person.

The worst celebrity offender, according to the study, is Taylor Swift, who topped the list by using her jet 170 times during the course of one year, responsible for producing 8,293.54 tons of CO2 emissions — more than any other celebrity.

While that may appear egregious, a spokesperson for Swift insists the report doesn’t tell the whole story. “Taylor’s jet is loaned out regularly to other individuals,” the spokesperson tells Rolling Stone. “To attribute most or all of these trips to her is blatantly incorrect.” READ MORE: Drake Addresses Critics Over 14-Minute Private Jet Flight From Toronto To Hamilton According to the study, Swift is responsible for producing 1,184.8 times more than the average person’s total annual emissions.

Meanwhile, “Selling Sunset” star Chrishell Stause took to Swift’s defence in a tweet pointing out that she didn’t necessarily take all those flights herself.