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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]
• $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.
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 ...
Use of Project Labor Agreements for Federal Construction Projects February 6, 2009 February 11, 2009 February 6, 2009 74 FR 6985 E9-3113 [35] [36] 15 13503: Establishment of the White House Office of Urban Affairs February 19, 2009 February 24, 2009 February 19, 2009 74 FR 8139 E9-4068 [37] [38] 16 13504: Amending Executive Order 13390 February ...
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 ...
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 ...
The announcement is part of the Interior Department's push to site more renewable energy facilities on federal lands, a cornerstone of President Joe Biden's goal to decarbonize the U.S ...
On January 28, 2009, a full-page advertisement with the names of approximately 200 economists who were against Obama's plan appeared in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. This included Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureates Edward C. Prescott, Vernon L. Smith, and James M. Buchanan. The economists denied the quoted ...