Friday, August 31, 2012

Obama order targets industrial efficiency, emissions

Reuters: President Barack Obama issued an executive order on Thursday that would increase the number of cogeneration plants in the U.S. by 50 percent by 2020, a move that would boost U.S. industrial energy efficiency and slash carbon emissions by 150 million tons per year. The order 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. The measure...

URL: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/31/us-emissions-idUSBRE87U09W20120831?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29
Enclosure: http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20120831&t=2&i=647967295&w=460&fh=&fw=&ll=&pl=&r=CBRE87U0MGB00

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