DOE Finds Climate Law To Cut GHGs By Over A Gigaton, Echoing Others

The Department of Energy (DOE) is projecting that the just-enacted budget reconciliation law with significant climate-related investments, when combined with last year’s bipartisan infrastructure law, will allow the country to reduce about a gigaton of greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, with over half of those cuts coming from power plants. An Aug. 19 issue brief from DOE, which leverages other agency and outside research, offers top-line findings about the GHG implications of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) that are similar...