Items Tagged with "White House"

White House to ask for 72% cut in RE budget

The Trump administration is expected to cut 72% of the Energy Department’s renewable energy and energy efficiency programs in their budget request to Congress for fiscal 2019.According to a report in The Washington Post, which obtained a draft of the budget documents, the draft proposal calls Read More...

White House Sets Net Zero Goals

President Joe Biden signed an executive order to achieve net zero emissions from federal procurement no later than 2050. The executive order also calls for a  reduction in emissions across federal operations, investing in American clean energy industries and manufacturing, and creating clean, h Read More...

White House Sets EV Charging Goals

The White House released an EV Charging Action Plan to outline steps federal agencies are taking to support developing and deploying chargers in American communities across the country. As a result of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the Department of Energy and Department of Transportation w Read More...

White House Allocates Funds for Clean Hydrogen

The Biden-Harris Administration announced the launch of major clean hydrogen initiatives of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to reduce climate pollution from industrial facilities, while growing the economy and creating jobs in producing clean materials.The initiatives will make the following inves Read More...

White House Starts $500 Million Energy Efficiency Program for Schools

The White House announced the Biden-Harris Action Plan for Building Better School Infrastructure to upgrade public schools with modern, clean, energy-efficient facilities and transportation. The action plan activates the entire federal government to advance solutions including energy efficiency retr Read More...

White House Waives Solar Tariff for 24 Months

The White House waived the solar tariff on products sold in Asia for the next 24 months. President Joe Biden signed the bill, H.R. 4426.The countries include four Southeast Asian nations - Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam, the White House said in a statement. The exemption for the tari Read More...

White House Approves EV Deployment Plan

The Biden-Harris Administration announced it has approved Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Deployment Plans for all 50 States, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico ahead of schedule under the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program, established and funded by President Bide Read More...

White House Launches Net-Zero Game Changers Initiative

The Biden-Harris Administration announced the launch of the Net-Zero Game Changers Initiative as part of the  $1.5 billion under President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act to build and upgrade America’s national laboratories and advance leadership in science, research, and innovation Read More...

White House Proposal to Protect Supply Chain from Climate-Related Risks

The Biden-Harris Administration is taking action to address GHG emissions and protect the Federal Government’s supply chains from climate-related financial risks. In support of President Biden’s Executive Orders on Climate-Related Financial Risk and Catalyzing Clean Energy Industrie Read More...

White House Provides Funding For Clean Hydrogen Technologies  

The Biden-Harris Administration, through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), announced its intent to issue $750 million in funding from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to reduce the cost of clean-hydrogen technologies. The funding is a component of accelerating the widesp Read More...

DOE Provides $6 Billion To Reduce Industrial Emissions 

The Biden-Harris Administration, through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), announced approximately $6 billion in funding to accelerate decarbonization projects in energy-intensive industries.Funded by President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act, the Industrial Demo Read More...

White House Proposes New Vehicle Standards to Lower Emissions

The Biden-Harris administration announced several proposals to improve vehicle pollution standards.The proposals will make all vehicles, including gas-powered cars and heavy-duty trucks, cleaner and more efficient by avoiding 10 billion tons of CO2 emissions through 2055 – twice the annual U.S Read More...

White House to Invest $100 Million for EV Charger Reliability

The Biden-Harris administration announced applications were opened for the Electric Vehicle (EV) Charger Reliability and Accessibility Accelerator program.The program will provide up to $100 million in federal funding to repair and replace non-operational EV charging infrastructure.Localities and st Read More...

White House Sets Targets to Expand Nuclear Energy

The Biden-Harris Administration is establishing domestic nuclear energy deployment targets as part of a first-of-its-kind framework outlining actions that the government can take to safely and responsibly expand nuclear energy capacity in the U.S.The framework stipulates that the U.S. will seek to d Read More...