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Obama orders GHG cuts for Federal Agencies; 50% of all new agency vehicles to be ZEV or PHEV by 2025

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President Obama today signed a wide-ranging executive order mandating cuts in greenhouse gas emissions for Federal agencies. The order has operational directives for building and fleet management, electricity generation, water use, waste management and purchasing.

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Obama Administration announces 21M-acre oil and gas lease sale offshore Texas

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Proposed Lease Sale 233, scheduled to take place in New Orleans in August, will be the third offshore auction under the Administration’s Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2012-2017 (Five Year Program). billion in high bids and a 20-million-acre sale held last November that netted nearly $134 million.

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Obama Administration to offer 40 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas development

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The sales will be the fourth and fifth offshore auctions under the Administration’s Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2012-2017 (Five Year Program), which makes all areas with the highest-known resource potential available for oil and gas leasing in order to further reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil.

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Obama Administration offering more than 20M acres offshore Texas for oil and natural gas exploration and development

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million acres, located from nine to 250 miles offshore, in water depths ranging from 16 to more than 10,975 feet (five to 3,346 meters). The sale will include all available unleased areas in the Western Gulf of Mexico Planning Area—encompassing 3,873 blocks and covering roughly 20.8

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Obama Administration Announces $8.33B in Loan Guarantees for New Nuclear Power Reactors in Georgia; First New US Nuclear Power Plant Project in Nearly 3 Decades

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President Obama announced that the Department of Energy has offered conditional commitments for a total of $8.33 The AP1000 is a 1,117 to 1,154 MWe pressurized water reactor (PWR) nuclear power plant that is an extension of the older AP600 design. (It It is considered a Generation III Advanced Light Water Reactor.)

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Obama Administration launches series of actions to accelerate EV adoption; inc. $4.5B in loan guarantees, pursuing 350 kW fast charge

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Alone, the federal government plans to purchase more than 500 plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) or EVs in fiscal year 2017. Eugene Water & Electric Board. potential longer-term innovations including evolution up to 350 kilowatt (kW) fast charging. Municipal fleet electrification. Confluence Environmental Center. Con Edison.

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BOEM announces proposed Central Gulf of Mexico oil and gas lease sale; nearly 38 million acres available

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As President Obama discussed in his State of the Union address on Tuesday, DOI is finalizing the next Five-Year Program for 2012-2017, which will make more than 75% of undiscovered technically recoverable oil and gas estimated on the OCS available for development.

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