A Greener Life

JUNE 10, 2022

The program provides paid, on-the-job training to New Yorkers who live in neighbourhoods with high rates of gun violence, with the aim of starting them on their way to a career in the city’s fast-growing green construction and clean energy trades. “I thought he was a pretty cool dude,” Kinch says.

Cooling 98

Cooling 2030 Clean Energy Electricity 98

Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

The Regulation’s proposed criteria for gaseous fossil fuels (which includes both conventional natural gas, and synthetic gas derived from coal gasification) allow investment in their consumption without restriction in function, scale, or time period, as long as greenhouse gas emissions are no higher than 100 gCO2eq/kWh (see §4.29-31

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Fossil Fuels Regulations Waste Technology 52

Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 11, 2022

On December 8, 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order on Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability (EO), which aims to set the federal government — the largest purchaser in the country with an annual purchasing power of $650 billion — on a path to net zero emissions by 2050.

Greenhouse 130

Greenhouse Electricity 2030 Carbon Emissions 130