Biden-Harris Climate Actions
January 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation - To cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in half within a decade, the Biden administration’s goal, the U.S. is going to need a lot more solar and wind power generation, and lots of cheap energy storage.
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January 11, 2022
Source: Spiked on Line - Energy prices have shot up across the globe over the past few months. Given that prices were very low a year ago in the midst of a global pandemic, a bounceback was inevitable as the world economy went into catch-up mode....
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January 03, 2022
Source: National Law Review - With enactment of the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the Biden Administration is now working to quickly roll out what is the most significant long-term investment in the nation’s infrastructure. The BIL...
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December 14, 2021
Source: State of the Planet, Columbia Climate School - As President Biden waits for our dysfunctional Congress to act on his Build Back Better program, last week, he took major executive action to move the power of federal procurement behind the green economy.
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December 01, 2021
Source: National Law Review - President Biden has signed into law the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), the bipartisan infrastructure bill approved by the Senate in August and the House of Representatives in November. With a price tag of $1.2...
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November 23, 2021
Source: Brookings - The Biden-Harris administration—as it works to re-engage and rebuild credibility at home and abroad—is advancing policy priorities that are consistent with the SDGs, even if it has not yet signaled how it might apply them to its...
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November 03, 2021
Source: Yahoo Finance - "One of the most important things we can do in this decisive decade is to keep 1.5 degrees [Celsius of temperature rise] in reach and reduce our methane emissions as quickly as possible," Biden said during his second day at the...
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October 29, 2021
Source: The Guardian - The framework includes investments in childcare, climate change mitigation and an expansion of healthcare, but it is a significantly pared-down version of the original $3.5tn agenda Biden had proposed.
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October 21, 2021
Source: Brookings - In November, at the COP26 U.N. Climate Change Conference, the U.S. will join the community of nations keeping alive the promise to meet the agreed target to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to...
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September 03, 2021
Source: The Hill - Climate change is a global crisis, but its effect on local communities can be devastating. Enduring record-breaking heatwaves and droughts; trying to survive stronger hurricanes and "hundred-year" floods that now wreak havoc...
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