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Exclusive photos obtained by DailyMail.com show Taylor Swift deplaning at Hollywood Burbank Airport in Los Angeles on July 5, days before she was named as the biggest celebrity polluter.
The photos show Swift returning to the US from a trip to London where she spent America's Independence Day consoling her boyfriend, actor Joe Alwyn, following the death of his great-uncle.
The new pictures show just one of the 170 times that her private jet was used in 2022, according to a study released on Friday by British digital marketing firm Yard is based on an analysis of private plane flights tracked by the automated flight tracker Celebrity Jets.
The study put her on top of the pile of celebrity polluters. Swift's jet narrowly beat out Floyd Mayweather's for the top spot. Other notables in the top 10 include Jay Z, country singer Blake Shelton, director Steven Spielberg, Kim Kardashian, Mark Wahlberg, and Oprah Winfrey.
In the pictures obtained by DailyMail.com, Swift is shown hidden beneath a large black umbrella that was handed to her by a member of her entourage while she was still on board.
Other members of her entourage are shown departing the plane and heading towards waiting gas guzzling SUVs.
The pictures of Taylor Swift show the singer hiding beneath a large black umbrella on July 5 at Burbank International Airport in Los Angeles
Between leaving the plane and getting into an awaiting gas guzzling SUV, Swift remained hidden under the umbrella
A recent study put Swift on top of the pile of celebrity polluters. Swift's jet narrowly beat out Floyd Mayweather's for the top spot
A member of Swift's entourage handing an umbrella to another member of the team while the singer remains on the plane
A rep for the 'Bad Blood' singer responded to the study by claiming her prolific private Falcon 7X jet use was caused by other people.
'Taylor's jet is loaned out regularly to other individuals,' a Swift spokesperson told Rolling Stone, 'To attribute most or all of these trips to her is blatantly incorrect.'
Data from the flight tracking website ADS B Exchange would appear to back up her rep's claim.
While the singer was in London with her boyfriend at the funeral, another plane registered to Swift was being used to fly between her family's home in Nashville, Tennessee, to Groton, Connecticut, where she has maintained a home since 2013.
That flight took place on July 2. On the same day, Swift's plane returned to Nashville. The plane did the exact same thing on July 6 and again on July 10.
Following the singer's return to the US, at some point, not recorded by online flight trackers, the singer went back to London.
On July 21, the Shake it Off singer was back in London where she appeared on stage with pop rockers Haim at the O2 Arena in the English capital, according to Pitchfork.
A member of Swift's entourage holds on to the umbrella as Swift escapes into an SUV
A rep for the 'Bad Blood' singer responded to the study by claiming her prolific private Falcon 7X jet use was caused by other people
One member of Swift's team clad in a t-shirt celebrating grunge pioneers Sonic Youth blocks his ears as he leaves the plan
DailyMail.com reported in July that there were rumors that Swift was ready to move full-time to London to be with with boyfriend Joe Alwyn as rumors swirl that the pair are engaged.
A female member of Swift's team leaves the plan carrying a bunch of men's clothes
Two members of Swift's team forced to walk on the tarmac of the airport while Swift heads to the safety of the air conditioned SUV
ADS B Exchange tracks Swift's plane as leaving London the following day. On July 22, Swift was pictured on Selena Gomez's Instagram page, celebrating the former Disney star's 30th birthday in LA. The post was captioned: '30, nerdy and worthy.'
DailyMail.com reported in July that there were rumors that Swift was ready to move full-time to London to be with Alwyn as rumors swirl that the pair are engaged.
The report came as a redemption for Kylie Jenner, who was branded a 'climate criminal' earlier this month for posting a picture of her and Travis Scott's matching his-and-hers private jets earlier this month.
So far Swift - whose jet is currently on the ground in Nashville according to ADS B Exchange - is the only celebrity on the list to comment on the study.
But despite the backlash over that incident, and another in which she took a 12-minute flight instead of making a 26-mile drive, Kylie Jenner did not even make Yard's top-10 list of celebrity polluters, ranking at a lowly 19.
The travels of Taylor Swift's jet are seen over the past week, logging nearly 8,000 miles as it criss-crossed the US
In response to the study, environmentalist activist Ian Borsuk to CTV News Toronto: 'I think we need to as a society have a conversation about whether we should be allowing these private flights to be happening in the first place.
He continued: 'I think it can really be frustrating for some folks when, you know, they're thinking to themselves, 'Okay, well, I'm doing everything I can in my daily routine to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions, such as taking public transit, buying local products, and things like
