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With the stroke of a pen from his new desk in the Oval Office, President Joe Biden pulled the US back into the Paris climate accord on Wednesday, an international agreement that experts say is vital to getting the world’s nations to slow the emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases. The executive order the third of 17 executive orders or actions issued on his first day in office means that US officials now will begin calculating a new target for the nation’s overall carbon emissions by the year 2030.
That target, in turn, will require federal, state, and corporate decisionmakers to set new standards for factories, cars, and power plants to use cleaner energy to meet that goal while likely offering both incentives and penalties to reduce overall energy use by all US residents.
With the stroke of a pen from his new desk in the Oval Office, President Joe Biden pulled the US back into the Paris climate accord on Wednesday, an international agreement that experts say is vital to getting the world’s nations to slow the emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases. The executive order the third of 17 executive orders or actions issued on his first day in office means that US officials now will begin calculating a new target for the nation’s overall carbon emissions by the year 2030.
That target, in turn, will require federal, state, and corporate decisionmakers to set new standards for factories, cars, and power plants to use cleaner energy to meet that goal while likely offering both incentives and penalties to reduce overall energy use by all US residents.
Demands re-run
The political leader of the Liberian National Union (LINU) and ex-Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Executive Director, Nathaniel Blama, is calling for a re-run in the senatorial election held in Gbarpolu and Grand Kru counties, contending that ballot boxes and tally sheets were tampered with.
According to Blama, there is a total number of 113 polling places in Grand Kru County and, of that number, only 111 were processed while two polling places are in question. “During our tallying, we realized that some ballot boxes were compromised, seals were broken, ballot papers stuffed and a lot of irregularities. For that, we are demanding a re-run.”