Sustainability News

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--General Mills has been named to 3BL’s 2026 100 Best Corporate Citizens list for the 18th consecutive year, ranking No. 5 in the Consumer Staples category. General Mills’ strongest year-over-year gains were in Environment, Stakeholders and Society, Human Rights, and Governance. These gains were driven by measurable progress in key areas, including scaling regenerative agriculture practices to more than 800,000 acres, reducing greenhouse gas emissions across the valu...

LUFKIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Caddo Sustainable Timberlands, LP (“Caddo”), the largest private timberland owner in Texas, is pleased to announce the appointment of Peyton Weeks as President. Peyton brings more than 25 years of experience in timberland management, forest operations and wood products manufacturing across Texas and Louisiana. Peyton joins Caddo from Weyerhaeuser, where he has held a variety of leadership roles since 2002, including oversight of nearly 500,000 acres across East T...

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CLEAResult Québec, a subsidiary of CLEAResult Canada, the country's largest energy efficiency, energy transition, and energy sustainability services provider, announced the acquisition of Groupe Marketing International, Inc. (GMI), a Québec-based customer care and operations partner with deep experience supporting energy efficiency programs in the province. CLEAResult and GMI have been collaborating closely since the launch of CLEAResult Québec in 2025, and today's acq...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, next-generation fiber producer, Everbloom, announces that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has approved renoa, a first-of-its-kind regenerated fiber, marking the first new apparel fiber classification approved by the agency in almost 25 years, the last being the approval of PLA in 2002. The approval establishes renoa as its own fiber category and paves the way for textile products containing renoa to be labeled and sold in the United States. Developed in...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ADM (NYSE: ADM), a global leader in innovative solutions from nature, today released its fourth annual regenerative agriculture report, showing how its programs are supporting farmers, strengthening agricultural supply chains and delivering measurable environmental outcomes around the world. “Resilience starts on the farm. By improving and protecting soil health, farmers can be better equipped to adapt to changing conditions and maintain productive operations,” said Gr...

CONWAY, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NativState, a forest carbon developer partnering with small private landowners across the U.S. Southeast, today announced the recent issuance of three new carbon projects issued under the ACR IFM 2.1 methodology. The news follows the strategic acquisition of Neeley Forestry Service, a respected forestry and land management firm serving landowners across Arkansas and Louisiana, in June. Together, the milestones strengthen NativState’s ability to deliver meaningful...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Gradiant, the water layer of the AI economy, today announced $300 million in new contracts from semiconductor manufacturing customers since the start of 2026, reflecting strong commercial momentum in a sector where water security is becoming a critical enabler of scale and speed. Among the wins, Gradiant secured new contracts with several leading global semiconductor manufacturers across five fabrication sites in New York, Virginia, Idaho, and Utah. The projects include...

OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Planted has raised $31.8 million to scale autonomous power deployment, with Piva Capital and RA Capital Management Planetary Health co-leading the round and participation from Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Gigascale Capital, Google, and Khosla Ventures. Power demand is rising faster than new capacity can be built. Solar PV remains the largest contributor to new global electricity supply, hitting a record 664 gigawatts in 2025. Still, the world needs terawatts o...

MIDDLETON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) today released PET Forward: A Decarbonization Roadmap for the PET Packaging Value Chain, a new analysis developed by independent environmental consulting firm Eastern Research Group, Inc. (ERG). The roadmap identifies practical strategies that could significantly reduce emissions associated with predominant US PET beverage bottle systems through 2050. PET (polyethylene terephthalate), widely identifi...

STOCKHOLM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Netmore Group, the leading network operator for Massive IoT, today announced that Cibicom has selected Netmore’s Operator Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) to operate, optimize, and scale its nationwide LoRaWAN® network for Internet of Things (IoT) deployments. Cibicom is the largest LoRaWAN network operator in Denmark and provides critical communication infrastructure for nationwide broadcast and LTE450 services as well as tier 3 data center solutions and B2B fiber conne...