Posted on 12/08/2022 9:17:36 AM PST by rktman
The Biden administration on Wednesday announced a new proposed rule that will prevent new or newly renovated federal buildings from being powered by fossil fuels by 2030.
The new standards will force the government to use green energy technologies to power its buildings in hopes of cutting carbon emissions and meeting international climate goals, according to an Energy Department (DOE) memo. Starting in 2025, government buildings, which are responsible for roughly 25% of all federal carbon emissions, must also reduce their on-site emissions relating to energy use by 90% compared to 2003 levels.
“Ridding pollution from our buildings and adopting clean electricity are some of the most cost-effective and future-oriented solutions we have to combat climate change,” said Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm in a statement.
President Joe Biden is promoting green energy and phasing out fossil fuels throughout the entire federal government, setting a “net-zero” goal for government carbon emissions by 2050, according to a White House fact sheet. The DOE stated that the new regulation could reduce federal buildings’ methane emissions by 22.8 thousand tons and those buildings’ carbon emissions by 1.86 million metric tons over the next 30 years, which is roughly equivalent to the emissions produced by nearly 300,000 homes annually.
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Well, on the positive side, as these offices freeze, people won’t want to work for the government, will quit. Less government workers, which will also mean less pollution from these air breathers.
Hopefully he’ll be dead by 2030 and so will his destructive “policies”.
Ayn Rand was a prophet.
She was right about a lot of things.
“The Biden administration on Wednesday announced a new proposed rule that will prevent new or newly renovated federal buildings from being powered by fossil fuels by 2030.…”
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Well, they had best make sure that each of those buildings is disconnected from their local municipal electrical supply because I can guarantee that all those sources of electricity will be produced at least in part by use of “fossil fuel”.
Indeed, and have you ever been in DC in Summer?
Time to renew my investments in whale oil
Maybe if DC freezes, they will destroy the country slower.
5.56mm
2030 is the WEF target date for the reset.
Their taxpayer provided Jets, have no such restriction.
OK, then, if we may not use hydrocarbon fuels (”fossil fuels” are anything but, this is a serious misnomer), then get started building all those nuclear power plants that will be the bridge to the future, like, YESTERDAY. We need a couple of hundred up and running as of January 1, 2030, if there is going to be a serious move away from hydrocarbon fuels. The unicorn farts and rainbows that provide the wind and solar power on a reliable basis are just not available, nor shall they ever be.
Democrat socialists, great on devising new problems, but a little short on providing viable solutions to the situations they create.
Enter the nuclear launch codes...
sorry, not accepted. Low battery.
Eh…..
He says whatever the Democrats want to hear.
Insanity. Hopefully President DeSantis will revoke this nonsense in early 2025.
Why wait until 2030, start now.
Start using renewables in all those federal buildings in upstate NY, all over New England, all through the midwest, and all across the northern tier of the US. Lets see how that all works out.
They aren’t his policies, his name just happens to be on the paperwork.
The folks pulling those puppet strings are anonymous and not going anywhere. They’ve been busy cultivating replacements and those replacements get crazier and crazier.
And to think, the only way they can even make a feeble attempt at powering these buildings is with solar panels.
Who makes all the solar panels? the Chinese if I’m not mistaken. Cheap ones at that.
Ebenezer Biden: “you’ll be wanting another lump of coal for your heat, Bob Cratchett”
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