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Podcast: One Thing Today in Tech
Episode: Biden signs order for the US to buy electric; Amazon fined $1.3 bln in Italy; Architect Balkrishna Doshi named for RIBA gold medal 2022
Description: US President Joe Biden signed an executive order on December 8 outlining a multi-billion-dollar plan for the federal government to achieve ‘net zero’ by 2050, The Verge reports. Under the plan, the US government will switch to electric vehicles, upgrade federal buildings, and use the power of the government to shift to cleaner forms of electricity.
The government will stop purchasing petrol-powered passenger cars in 2027 but would only achieve 100 percent electric vehicle purchases by 2035. Biden’s order will direct the government to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 65 percent by the end of the decade before reaching full carbon neutra...