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Des Moines Mayor Frank Cownie told the City Council last night that the city has felt the impact of climate change through extreme weather events such as floods and drought.
The city of Des Moines has set new climate goals to cut greenhouse gas emissions and to use only carbon-free electricity.
A resolution passed by the Des Moines City Council Monday sets a goal to use “100 percent 24x7 electricity from carbon-free sources” community-wide by the year 2035. It also directs city staff to work toward cutting total greenhouse gas emissions by 45 percent over the next decade and to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.
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And if every project that has filed papers with state regulators gets built, the total would exceed 5,000 megawatts by the mid-2020s.
Nicole Welle | December 10, 2020
Des Moines city council members debated a proposed city resolution that would transition the city’s electric users to 100% renewable energy by 2030 earlier this week.
Councilman Josh Mandelbaum, who supports the proposal, debated with Councilman Joe Gatto over a potential conflict of interest. Gatto accused Mandelbaum of the conflict because Mandelbaum is the senior attorney for the Environmental Law and Policy Center’s Des Moines office, a non-profit organization that supports renewable energy, aggressive reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and the retirement of coal plants. Gatto said he would not support any resolution Mandelbaum writes because of his ties with the organization, according to an Iowa Capital Dispatch article.
Nicole Welle | January 14, 2021
The Des Moines City Council unanimously approved a resolution this week that aims to transition all Des Moines homes and businesses to renewable energy by 2035.
Environmental activists celebrated the resolution, and more than 40 businesses in Des Moines endorsed it. Councilman Josh Mandelbaum, who introduced the resolution, said that it was made possible in part by MidAmerican Energy’s investments in renewable energy sources. MidAmerican is working toward the goal of producing all of its power from renewable sources, and it plans to close all of its coal and gas plants once renewable energy transmission and storage technology improves enough to meet demands, according to an Iowa Capital Dispatch article.
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