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A group of multinational corporations including Apple, Walmart and Unilever and small to medium enterprises such as Vanguard Renewables and Sims Limited, have signed a letter urging the Biden administration to pursue an ambitious federal climate target, or national determined contribution (NDC), that will reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at least 50% below 2005 levels by 2030.
Led by the We Mean Business coalition and nonprofit sustainability advocacy group Ceres, the companies that signed the letter each have business operations in the U.S. and share the goal to halve emissions over the next decade to help the country reach net zero emissions by 2050.
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An action plan to curb food loss and waste in the U.S. pitched to Congress and the Biden administration this week by four organizations and supported by a host of cities, businesses and nonprofits recommends funding infrastructure that keeps organic waste out of disposal sites by providing state- and city-level investments for measuring, rescuing and recycling it.
Led by the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic (FLPC), Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), ReFED and World Wildlife Fund, the plan also stipulates that federal facilities take steps to prevent organic waste and purchase finished compost products. The organizers urge lawmakers to spur growth of compost markets among private sector buyers as well.
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Rob Donnelly John Ovitt has a sticky problem. The Franklin Foods cream cheese plant he runs in Enosburg Falls makes more wastewater than the tiny village treatment plant can handle. Eric Fitch has an innovative solution. The founder and CEO of New Hampshire-based renewable power company PurposeEnergy could transform that foul cheese water into a valued commodity: renewable electricity. Their partnership seemed like a perfect match until the state s energy regulators recently raised an inconvenient truth: The power grid in the northern third of Vermont already has more renewable energy than it can handle. Big wind and solar projects developed in recent years in rural parts of the region generate far more power than businesses and residents there consume. The surplus electricity is exported to more densely populated parts of the state over older transmission lines tha