N.C. Targets Transportation for Emissions Reduction

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) has signed an executive order directing the N.C. Department of Transportation to create a Clean Transportation Plan to guide the state’s transition to electric vehicles.

Cooper signed the order during an event at N.C. Agricultural and Technical State University. In many ways, Friday’s Executive Order 246 builds on the targets set forward in 2018’s Executive Order 80, says a report in the Charlotte News & Observer.

For example, the latest order sets statewide greenhouse gas reductions targets of a 50 percent reduction from 2005 levels by 2030 and net zero by 2050, raising the target of a 40 percent reduction by 2025. The order also significantly raises North Carolina’s goals for electric and other zero-emission vehicle registrations.

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Source: Charlotte News & Observer