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President Biden Outlines Comprehensive Plan for Federal Sustainability

Clean Energy Law

The president’s executive order aims to use the US government’s procurement power to achieve “carbon pollution-free electricity” by 2030 and net zero emissions by 2050. By Jennifer Roy and Julie Miles. The EO establishes the following policies as part of a whole-of-government strategy.

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New California Legislation Would Be a Major Step Forward for Climate Disclosure

Law Columbia

It would require standardized reporting of GHG emissions (primarily carbon dioxide and methane) by firms doing business in California with total annual revenues more than $1 billion. [19] Scope 2 emissions are those attributable to producing the energy (principally electricity) that the company buys. The vote on it was 24-9.

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A new cosmic dawn: peering across the universe with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope

Physics World

Layered protection: A test model of the giant sunshield that will keep the JWST cool. But the sunshield engineers were not the only ones biting their fingernails about keeping the JWST cool. Keeping cool. Keeping the helium refrigerant cool on its journey though the telescope’s plumbing is therefore vital.

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