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Solar panels track the morning sun at Rosamond Central, a newly completed 192-megawatt solar farm developed by Clearway Energy Group in California’s Kern County, on Feb. 4, 2021, with wind turbines in the background.(Gary Coronado/Los Angeles Times/TNS)
Joe Biden wants 100% clean energy. Will California show that it’s possible?
The undersea power line would run south from San Luis Obispo County hugging the California coast for 200 miles before making landfall in or near Los Angeles. It would be able to carry electricity from a fleet of offshore wind turbines, providing Southern California with clean power after sundown and helping to replace fossil-fueled generators.
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Published: Wednesday, February 10, 2021
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President Biden has ordered federal agencies to prepare a governmentwide plan for buying electric vehicles and other clean energy procurements. He s shown here at a meeting with business leaders yesterday in the Oval Office. Pete Marovich/UPI/Newscom
A landmark executive order issued by President Biden last month seeks to use the federal government s purchasing power for vehicles and electricity as a way to stoke massive demand for clean energy but some say it may run up against a brick wall.
The Jan. 27 order on climate change gives the heads of three federal agencies the Council on Environmental Quality, General Services Administration, and Office of Management and Budget 90 days to develop a new governmentwide plan for clean energy procurements. The strategy is meant to facilitate Biden s goal of a 100% carbon-free power sector by 2035 and provide a jolt of demand for zero
28 January 2021 17:53 GMT Updated 1 February 2021 17:55 GMT
US President Joe Biden on Wednesday elevated climate change to an “essential element” of American foreign policy and national security, announcing three executive orders that would include putting a halt to new oil and gas drilling on public lands, federal agencies eliminating fossil fuel subsidies, and raising targets for the country’s fledgling offshore wind sector.
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“We’ve already waited too long to deal with this climate crisis. We can t wait any longer. We see it with our own eyes, we feel it, we know it in our bones and its time to act,” said Biden, who took office a week ago pledging to be the most aggressive president on climate action. “We know what to do. We just got to do it.”