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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In his New Energy For America plan, Obama proposed to reduce overall U.S. oil consumption by at least 35%, or 10 million barrels per day, by 2030 in order to offset imports from OPEC nations. [170] [171] And by 2011 the United States was said to be "awash with domestic oil and increasingly divorced and less reliant on foreign imports". [172]
During the predawn magnitude 6.7 Northridge earthquake of 1994, 16 people died when the ground floor of the Northridge Meadows apartment building collapsed, crushing sleeping residents in their ...