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• US Shale Gas Could Become ‘Biggest Green Initiative on Planet,’ EQT CEO Says

  U.S. LNG holds significant potential to put the country on track to achieve its sustainability goals, according to Toby Rice, CEO of EQT Corp.—the largest natural gas producer in the U.S.

  “The facts are clear. U.S. LNG powered by the Marcellus shale is the biggest green initiative on the planet,” Rice told attendees of Hart Energy’s DUG East & Marcellus-Utica Midstream conference and exhibition on Dec. 7. “We shouldn’t be thinking about cutting down LNG exports, we should be thinking about doing more,” he said.

  Rice said he is extremely bullish on natural gas, adding that the growth engine for domestic gas producers will be international LNG.

• OneTrust Acquires Climate Action and Carbon Management Platform Planetly

  OneTrust, the category-defining enterprise platform to operationalize trust, today announced it acquired Planetly, the technology company on a mission to support business transformation to a net-zero economy. The integration will rapidly accelerate OneTrust's ESG solution, bringing carbon management technology, sustainability management capabilities, deep environmental research, and a team of carbon accounting experts into OneTrust.

  Headquartered in Berlin, Planetly enables 170 companies, including BMW, HelloFresh, and The Economist Group, to calculate their carbon footprint, reduce carbon emissions, and make a meaningful climate impact. The platform powers carbon-neutral programs across industries, including ecommerce, logistics, and technology, and leading frameworks and standards, including GHG Protocol, CDP, and SBTI.

• Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) Acquires risQ and Level 11 Analytics

  Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE), a leading global provider of data, technology and market infrastructure, today announced the acquisitions of risQ and Level 11 Analytics, which deploy sophisticated, data-driven technologies for managing climate change risk and expanding our alternative data capabilities in U.S. fixed income, municipal and mortgage-backed securities markets.

• Battery Ventures Acquires Analytical-Instrumentation Pioneer LI-COR Biosciences

  Battery Ventures, a global, technology focused investment firm, has acquired LI-COR Biosciences, an industry-leading company that makes highly engineered instrumentation systems for environmental research, agriculture, drug discovery, protein research and therapeutics development.

  LI-COR, founded by Bill and Elaine Biggs, has two main business lines: environmental-monitoring instrumentation, including devices and software for scientists to analyze plants, atmospheric qualities, gas and soil, and a biotechnology business, offering a portfolio of imaging and analysis instruments, proprietary software and reagents sold mainly to life-science research institutions and pharmaceutical producers.

• ExxonMobil Acquires Materia, Inc., a High-Performance Structural Polymers Company

  ExxonMobil Chemical Company has acquired California-based Materia, Inc., a technology company that has pioneered the development of a Nobel prize-winning technology for manufacturing a new class of materials. The innovative materials can be used in a number of applications, including wind turbine blades, electric vehicle parts, sustainable construction, and anticorrosive coatings.