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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) initiated the development of a megaton-scale direct air capture (DAC) hub in southwest Wyoming by funding several companies.

Dulles International Airport broke ground on the Dulles Solar and Storage project that will generate up to 100 megawatts (MW) of solar energy and store up to 50 MW of power.

Carlisle Companies, a supplier of building envelope products and solutions for more energy efficient buildings, made significant progress in reducing its operational GHG emissions by eliminating nearly 2,000 metric tons of carbon emissions from direct operations.

Liberty Tire Recycling, a North American provider of tire recycling services, avoided over 750,000 metric tons of CO2e through the use and application of its recycled products.

Glass solutions company Bendheim announced it committed to reducing its corporate Scope 1 and 2 emissions 30% by 2030.

Ribbon Communications Inc., a global provider of real time communications technology and IP optical networking solutions, achieved a 16% reduction in direct carbon emissions in 2022 versus 2018.

Gildan Activewear Inc. tied 25% of its senior executives’ strategic objectives to the company's annual short-term incentive plan to support the advancement of ESG targets.

Bayer, a global company in the life science fields of agriculture and healthcare, partnered with several companies to showcase the scalability of methane emissions reduction in rice cultivation.

A large partnership between federal agencies is working to remove marine carbon dioxide.

In 2017, the energy team at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Air Force Plant #4, located in Fort Worth, Texas, learned about the U.S. Department of Energy's 50001 Ready program to achieve deeper and sustained energy and GHG savings. This case study from the DOE explores how the program was implemented and led to optimized energy use and related improvements.