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Can New Technology Incentivize Farmers to Capture Carbon in Their Soil? by Michael Sterenberg |July 21, 2021 The Scenic Hudson Soil Lab is a rather unassuming structure. Sitting atop a hemp farm within New York’s Hudson River Valley, the lab is unadorned, and no bigger than a roadside diner. The inconspicuousness of the site, however, belies the importance of the research going on inside. In the past few years, the lab has become the regional hub for a burgeoning group of scienti...

Speakers: John Walsh, Peggy Otum, Daniel Farber and Marsden Hanna Walsh: As President Bidens first executive orders demonstrate, climate change is now at the heart of federal environmental policy agenda. But regardless of who sits in the White House, the private sector has focused on this very important topic for years. For example, major companies implementing climate pledges such as Googles announcement that it will run on carbon-free energy by 2030. Today Im joined by my fellow WilmerHale P...

Digital bunkering gains traction on cost, environmental grounds The announcement that marine fuel supplier Minerva Bunkering has launched a digital bunkering platform at major hubs comes amid a wider industry trend that embraces digitization in order to lower emissions and raise transparency. The marine fuel sector has long been considered opaque, but there are an increasing number of announcements indicating the industry is looking to overcome this and making use of big data to do so, made pos...