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The U.S. President issues series of orders to fight greenhouse gas emissions

July 30, 2013 by · Leave a Comment 

The Whitehouse is laying out a plan to promote solar and wind energy projects on public land, introducing new standards on fuel economy, and requiring limitations on greenhouse gas emissions on power plants.

Forty percent of the nation’s carbon dioxide emissions and one third of greenhouse gases come from power plants in the U.S. Instead of waiting for the U.S. Congress to act on series of measures to cut down greenhouse emissions, the President is using the Clean Air Act and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) authority to require reduce pollution from power plants. The Administration is asking the power plant operators to incrementally switch from coal to natural gas, wind, solar and other renewable energy sources. Coal provides 40 percent of the U.S. electricity.

Internationally, China has become a point of concern which generates 80 percent of electricity from coal. It produces only four percent of its power needs from natural gas. The U.S. has an abundance of natural gas and the prices at the world market are more favorable for nations to use natural gas for power generation. Russia is building a natural gas supply line to China, which will help to cut greenhouse emissions by China.

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