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The Biden administration has placed a greater focus on the impact of climate change than any administration to come before it. From climate research projects at the Energy Department and the Environmental Protection Agency to new sustainability requirements in General Services Administration contracts, climate change’s impact on federal procurement has only been increasing.
One of the initiatives from the Energy Department to try and make that happen is a $6 million award to certain national laboratories to expand the use of geothermal heating and cooling at federal sites.
The service brought together high-ranking Navy officials, enlisted sailors, think tank experts, non-governmental organizations, industry and legislative aides to participate in a tabletop exercise focused on responding to a climate event.
Deborah Loomis, senior adviser for climate change to the Secretary of the Navy, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to talk more about it.
The latest attempt to mitigate climate change comes amid National Ocean Month.
The targets are part of the service’s new climate change strategy, which the Navy released on Tuesday.
The contract is part of a $4.9 billion rebuild of the base, which was destroyed in 2018.
In today's Federal Newscast, federal agencies will have to come up with a plan to recycle their electric vehicle batteries, if a Senate bills makes it through Congress.
General Services Administration sees a shift in contract obligation and business volume data where sustainability is concerned.
Currently data centers account for approximately 2% of total U.S. energy use, equivalent to 10 to 50 times the energy per floor space of a typical commercial office building.
In today's Federal Newscast, the Biden administration expects climate change’s toll on the federal government will become more expensive over time.
Ko Barrett has been at the center of this research for many years in successive jobs at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The Biden administration is in the market for greener sources of electricity for the federal government, a significant step in a decades-long plan set into motion by a recent executive order.
The new Federal Sustainability Plan released in December charges agencies to harness procurement authority to reach 100% carbon pollution-free energy at federal facilities by 2030.