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2026 CEF Annual Leaders Retreat: June 15-18, Albuquerque, NM
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CEF Member News
Amazon
Amazon and CMI (a program of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames National Laboratory) announced a new collaboration to advance technologies needed to recover and recycle critical minerals from waste streams. Utilizing Amazon’s AI capabilities and supply chain scale and CMI’s research expertise, the two will explore methods to produce battery-grade graphite from post-consumer textiles. CMI researchers will also work with Amazon Web Services teams to investigate the technical and economic feasibility of recovering critical minerals from end-of-life IT hardware. PR »
Signed a long-term agreement with American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT) and Shell Aviation to source sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) environmental attribute information through the SAF registry Avelia (using a book-and-claim model to facilitate SAF use even where not available at departure airports). The program aims to bring together Amex GBT’s corporate customers and Shell Aviation’s airline customers to help increase SAF demand and scale its use. This extends an earlier agreement made between the companies in 2023. PR »
Microsoft
Microsoft signed a carbon removal agreement with U.S.-based biochar company Liferaft for one million carbon removal units over ten years. Liferaft will convert agricultural and municipal waste from Iowa and Illinois into biochar, which will be used in agricultural applications and tracked to confirm end uses ensure long-term carbon storage.
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