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CEF Member News
ADM
Announced it will enter the voluntary CO2 removal market with credits generated by the over 800,000 ton per year capacity carbon capture operations at the company’s corn processing plant in Nebraska. The plant will capture CO2 during ethanol fermentation, which will be stored underground in partnership with energy infrastructure provider Tallgrass. The credits will be issued and certified by Puro.earth, with issuance expected by year end (with a crediting period of 15 years). PR »
Amazon
Announced it will invest $20 million in water conservation projects across the Colorado River Basin as part of a new coalition, the Colorado River Basin Collaborative (CRBC). The CRBC aims to create one of the largest corporate water conservation efforts for a single U.S. watershed, developing a series of vetted projects that companies can contract directly. Through this, Amazon is investing $2.2 million to increase leak detection and repairs in Orange County, and $2.4 million to improve irrigation efficiency on tribal farmland in the Lower Colorado River Basin. PR »
General Motors
Completed a pilot, along with several partners, demonstrating a closed-loop recycling pathway for building electric vehicles (EVs) using battery cells made with 100% recycled nickel, cobalt, and manganese (including material recovered from end-of-life GM EV battery packs). Once the battery cells were tested, they were assembled into battery modules and put into different model GM EVs. PR »
Oracle
Announced investments in ten wind energy generation projects in Texas of over 1.7 GW, in support of its goal to match 100% of its AI data center electricity with carbon-free electricity by 2035. The energy generated represents an estimated avoided-emissions equivalent of 1.8 million metric tons of CO2 each year compared to the ERCOT grid in Texas. PR »