Obama Issues Green Energy Executive Order « The Greenroom: "The order, which aims to increase the number of cogeneration plants in the U.S. by 50 percent by 2020 and slash carbon emissions by 150 million tons per year, is the administration’s latest effort to ‘deploy cleaner and more efficient energy production in the country by working around political resistance to climate change and ‘green’ energy legislation on Capitol Hill,’ Reuters reports.
Furthermore, ”the order dictates that the Departments of Energy, Commerce, and Agriculture, and the Environmental Protection Agency coordinate their actions to provide “policy and technical assistance” to states in order to ensure energy efficiency targets are being met. The order also ‘establishes a new national goal of 40 gigawatts of new combined heat and power capacity by 2020, a 50% increase from today,’ according to a statement from the White House.”"
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