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• $41.5 billion to reduce the federal government's own energy bill by making federal buildings more energy efficient, • $62.3 billion to support state and local energy efforts, • $6 billion to train people for green jobs, and • $29 billion to promote investments in battery storage technologies.
Green roofs are explicitly recommended for government buildings. Zero-net-energy goals are to be incorporated into the process of buying or leasing new government properties. Beginning fiscal year 2020 and thereafter, all new Federal buildings greater than 5000 gross square feet must be designed to achieve Zero-Net-Energy. [16]
President Barack Obama adapted further climate goals from the original New Energy for America plan into the Presidential Climate Action Plan. [14] The Climate Action Plan, last announced in June 2013, was a series of executive programs that included regulations to cut domestic carbon emissions, to prepare the U.S. for impending effects of ...
Downtown Topeka's federal government building will be getting a $25 million makeover to make it more energy efficient. "I am so pleased to be able to be here in Topeka to announce the $2 billion ...
President Barack Obama challenged the nation during his 2011 State of the Union Address to cut energy costs so that by the year 2035 we will have 80 percent of America's electricity coming from ...
The bill contains increased incentives for energy efficiency (particularly in federal government buildings), improved funding for weatherization assistance, standards to phase out the use of hydrofluorocarbons, plans to rebuild the nation's energy research sector including fossil fuel research, and $7 billion in demonstration projects for ...
President Obama is unveiling this week what some have dubbed his "second stimulus." There's $50 billion more in infrastructure spending on roads and bridges, $100 billion to make a research and ...
By Executive Order 13514, U.S. President Barack Obama mandated that by 2015, 15% of existing Federal buildings conform to new energy efficiency standards and 100% of all new Federal buildings be zero-net-energy by 2030.