WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order to make the federal government carbon-neutral by 2050, aiming for a 65% reduction in planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and an all-electric fleet of car and trucks five years later.
The White House said the order shows how the government will “leverage its scale and procurement power to lead by example in tackling the climate crisis.” The order will reduce emissions across federal operations, as part of a governmentwide effort to confront climate change.
The order directs that government buildings use 100% carbon pollution-free electricity by 2030; that the U.S. fleet of cars and trucks become all-electric by 2035; and that federal contracts for goods and services be carbon-free by 2050.
Government buildings should be carbon-free by 2045, including a 50% emissions cut by 2032, Biden said.
The executive action is a part of Biden’s commitment to support the growth of clean energy and clean technology industries, while accelerating U.S. progress toward achieving a carbon pollution-free electricity sector by 2035, the White House said.
“The United States government will lead by example to provide a strong foundation for American businesses to compete and win globally in the clean energy economy while creating well-paying, union jobs at home,” the White House said in a statement.
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Old bozo should lead by example and convert air force 1 & the decoys to solar. Along with every form of transportation he is stealing from the American taxpayer.
The communist occupier can order anything he wants… and when a real President takes control …they can cancel it. I know for a fact this order Quid Pro Joe, crime boss Biden has ordered will cost over 70% more than using fossil base energy … that’s the dirty little secret … NOTHING produces more BTU energy for it’s weight than fossil base fuel. You can’t fund / find new technology for less expensive energy by crashing the entire world economy… if the middle class that produces goods and service’s is NOT working than there is no taxes or funding which at this point is exactly what this demons running our country are doing…crushing the middle class. It’s a swindle in the highest order.
Also mandate ALL Federal buildings, ONLY GET powered via wind/solar. NO Federal building should ever remain on the normal power grid… AND IF THEY CAN’T hack it that way.. TOUGH Sqiunt.
The rise of the Ancient Athenian Greeks was not due to becoming a Democracy, but the silver discovered near Athens that financed the Trireme ships otherwise known as the wooden walls that defended Athens. Petroleum today is the black gold/silver equivalent of the silver of the Greeks that gave them the economic security to finance their national defenses. The Traitorous self-enriching Biden Crime family would close out and prevent the mining of the very product that has and does, fuel our national economic and military security, by his blocking oil production on government lands and pipelines that cleanly move the product much better than fuel burning trucks and rails. By eliminating domestic oil production while enabling Soviet Pipelines he enriches our sworn Communist enemy’s military and economy. By forcing Americans to become reliant upon electric vehicles and the Chinese government who now has a monopoly on the Lithium needed to produce the batteries, Joe and his Biden crime family only manage to place us at the mercy of our Chinese sworn enemies, by defunding America while enriching his crime party and his crime family. If that does not define the meaning of the word TRAITOR, then THE PEOPLE have indeed been totally dumbed down in their socialist conquered American education system and angry Mama Bears are the least of our worries.