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Outokumpu, a world-leading stainless steel manufacturer, has updated its sustainability strategy and aims to become the industry benchmark for sustainability.

The market outlook is generally positive for the U.S. Unlike Europe most people will soon be vaccinated and business will return to normal.

President Biden last week pledged to slash U.S. greenhouse gas emissions 50-52% by the end of the decade, as part of an aggressive push to tackle climate change in the United States and persuade other major economies around the world to follow suit.The announcement was made at a virtual summit of 40 world leaders, aiming to increase international climate ambitions and reestablishing the United States as an environmental leader and activist.The pledge represents a near-doubling of the target that the nation committed to under the 2015 Paris climate agreement, when Barack Obama vowed to cut emissions by 26 to 28%, compared with 2005 levels.The administration is likely to first offer broad strokes rather than a detailed breakdown of how it will meet the more ambitious target.

The FLIR® Vue® TZ20 is the first high resolution, dual thermal sensor gimbal built for the DJI® Matrice V2 200 Series and Matrice 300 airframes.

The Government of Canada has announced the creation of the Hydrogen Strategy Implementation Strategic Steering Committee,

Air Liquide SA, the world’s second-largest maker of industrial gases, plans to invest about 8 billion euros (USD $9.5 billion) in low-carbon hydrogen by 2035 as part of a plan to more than triple sales of the fuel to help clients curb emissions.While producing clean hydrogen with electrolyzers is currently costlier than using fossil fuels, France and other European nations have pledged billions in subsidies over the next decade to reduce production costs in line with policies for the continent to become carbon-neutral by 2050.Proponents of green hydrogen say the move will be key to decarbonizing industrial processes, such as refining and steelmaking, and is more suitable than using batteries to power heavy trucks, trains, boats and even airplanes.

Align Capital Partners’ (“ACP”) environmental testing and compliance platform Alliance Technical Group, LLC has acquired the air testing and monitoring assets of O’Brien & Gere, a division of Ramboll (“Ramboll Air Testing and Monitoring”).

Newpoint Gas, LLC, and Brooks Energy Company have announced Escalante H2 Power, a technology collaboration that converts retired coal-fired power plants (CFPP) to use blue/green hydrogen as fuel with three precedent-setting results.

Ecopetrol S.A. reports that it has published its plan to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050, in line with its commitment to mitigate climate change and further the energy transition and its "TESG" agenda.

Linde Engineering has won the official bid for the design and construction of an integrated hydrogen fueling station and electrolysis plant for AGR in Herten, Germany.The project comprising hydrogen production and high-performance fueling technology is receiving funding of up to €6.2 million from the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure in the framework of the National Innovation Program Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology (NIP).