Google throws offset funding at landfill energy project

James S Murray
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Google agrees to buy offsets from new US 3MW energy-from-waste project

Google has taken another step in its mission to become a carbon neutral company by signing a contract to buy carbon offsets from a new landfill gas project near one of its datacentres in South Carolina....

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