Washington Post: “An executive order President Biden will sign later Wednesday leverages Washington’s buying power to cut the government’s carbon emissions 65 percent by the end of the decade. It lays out goals that would put the federal government on a path to net-zero emissions by 2050 and would add at least 10 gigawatts’ worth of clean electricity to the grid.” “Under the new approach, federal operations would run entirely on carbon-free electricity by 2030.
Biden Aims For Carbon Neutral Government By 2050
Taegan Goddard, Political Wire
Wed, 12/08/2021 - 11:17am
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