Electricity Companies Urge Biden to Set Standard to Reduce Emissions 80 Percent by 2030

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Electricity companies urge Biden to set standard to reduce emissions 80 percent by 2030.

To achieve the goal of net-zero emissions, power companies would use a number of reduction strategies such as switching to wind, solar-generated or nuclear energy. There are also proposals for capturing emissions from coal and natural gas plants so they don’t enter the atmosphere, though these technologies have not yet been demonstrated on the scale of solar or wind power.

Biden has already shown his intent to establish a CES in his recently unveiled infrastructure plan, which earned praise from environmental groups. “By expanding the supply of clean energy on our grid, a CES will cut the soot and smog threatening our health and the carbon pollution driving the climate crisis,” the National Resource Defense Council. The environmental group also estimated that two CES proposals introduced in Congress last year would prevent between 3,000 and 7,000 premature deaths each year.

In addition to focusing on U.S. emissions, Biden also intends to call on all major world economies to join him in slashing greenhouse gas emissions over the next decade. According to the

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Well no shit... that makes the electric companies a boat load of more money.

If it's a standard request, hopefully it will be granted.

& like a pussy he'll cave. OMG he'll make Tesla so proud & put more people out of work, he even put the people who voted for him out of work So they can think about living on F**king Mars hell they can't even live here on earth & make it work they'll just F**k up Mars too.

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Electric Company also demands Biden do something about that hole in the bottom of the sea.

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Power companies urge Biden to implement policies to cut emissions 80% by 2030A group of U.S. electricity companies wrote to President Joe Biden this week saying it will work with his administration and Congress to design a broad set of policies to reach a near-term goal of slashing the sector's carbon emissions by 2030. Washington should implement policies, including a clean energy standard, or CES, to ensure the electricity industry cuts carbon emissions 80% below 2005 levels by 2030, the group of 13 power interests, including generators Exelon Corp, PSEG and Talen Energy Corp, said in a letter to Biden.
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