How Will Biden Electrify The Federal Government’s Fleet?
President Biden recently announced that he wants to replace all federal government vehicles with “clean electric vehicles.”
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The Significance Of The “People First” Approach In Biden’s Transition To Net Zero
Climate action could be at a turn-around with the election of Joe Biden. Mostly, because the new president and Kamala Harris have put climate justice and people first.
500,000 EV Charging Stations Plan Update
Thanks for your input on the draft EV charging plan we are putting together for the Biden administration. I’ve read through the comments and e-mails, and in the second draft for a charging plan, we will be incorporating most of the changes you all suggested. Here are the top two questions we got:
Joe Biden’s Presidency Would Re-Establish America As A Climate Leader
In an article by GreenBiz, the question, “How could a Biden presidency affect climate change investing?,” was posed. Short answer: in a very positive way. I wanted to expand on this and share my thoughts.
Biden Campaign Reaffirms End To Fossil Fuels Subsidies
Joe Biden was against subsidies for fossil fuels a month ago, but suddenly the language in his platform opposing them disappeared. Now it’s back, after the Huffington Post noticed the change and environmental groups fought to get the language restored.
The Green Transition Virus
Global problems need global solutions. Voluntary agreements and unilateral acts only go so far. We need a strategy to make climate action spread — to make it so contagious it will “go viral,” start a chain reaction, trigger a “domino effect.”
Climate News
As a reminder of why we do what we do, here’s some top global warming and climate change news from around: Climate Science Each Degree of Global Warming Might Ultimately Raise Global Sea Levels by More Than 2 Meters They Didn’t Change the Name from ‘Global Warming’ to ‘Climate Change’ … [continued]
High-Speed Rail Could Get $53 Billion More from Obama Administration [VIDEO]
In addition to the $27 million for solar and $50.5 million for offshore wind Obama just announced, Joe Biden and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood also let us know yesterday that another $53 billion is being proposed for high-speed rail. This is in addition to the $8 billion awarded at the … [continued]
$5 Billion More in Clean Energy Tax Credits
In the midst of the Copenhagen negotiations last week, the White House announced a proposal to give a huge increase in tax breaks to manufacturers who produce wind, solar, geothermal, or other clean energy technologies. The goal of the tax breaks is to stimulate more job growth and promote … [continued]
5 Dirty Aspects of "Clean" Coal
Clean coal has been getting a lot of attention lately. Both Mr. McCain and Mr. Obama consider it to be an important piece in their energy plans. Even the recent $900 billion bailout package included $1.5 billion for clean coal. Because coal is so plentiful and relatively cheap in the … [continued]
