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Climate change will impact native plant species in New England. The Native Plant Trust and The Nature Conservancy said states need to preserve at least an additional 2.3 million acres of land in specific locations to save the flora that both beautify and protect their landscapes, according to a new report released by the groups this week.
“We wanted to know if more than a century of conservation in New England has protected enough land in the right places to save the region’s plant diversity,” said Debbi Edelstein, executive director of Native Plant Trust. “The collaboration with The Nature Conservancy merged deep botanical knowledge with robust data modeling to generate a powerful approach to land protection that can direct limited funding to the best places for preserving the region’s plants and the living systems they sustain.”
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Phillip Morris Relocating Headquarters to Fairfield County
Phillip Morris International, the Swiss/American global cigarette and tobacco manufacturing powerhouse behind iconic brands Marlboro, Benson & Hedges, Chesterfield and Merit has just announced with Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont, that PMI will relocate it s Corporate Headquarters out of New York City, to an undetermined location in Fairfield County, Connecticut.
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The new headquarters is planned to be in operation in about a year, by the summer of 2022. Governor Lamont expects the move to bring approximately 200 new jobs into Connecticut.
According to the press release, PMI CEO Jacek Olczak said-
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Emily Huntress Lamont, the daughter of Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont, has accepted a position as a special assistant in the U.S. Department of Education.
Lamont was among a long list of appointees announced by the department last week. The former Connecticut Education Commissioner and now U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona is her boss.
The 34-year-old worked as a policy associate in Arizona on the Biden for President campaign, and helped her father win the 2018 gubernatorial race in his state.
She also served as program manager at Connecticut COVID Charity Connection. The nonprofit, known as 4-CT, helped streamline Connecticut s philanthropic response to the pandemic.