Viridi Energy Acquires Maine Digester Facility for Industry-Leading Biosolids-to-RNG Project - Seite 3

About Viridi Energy

Viridi Energy is a full-service renewable natural gas investor, operator, and partner founded by a veteran RNG management team. With the backing of Warburg Pincus and Green Rock Energy Partners, the firm’s platform builds, owns, and operates RNG assets with landfill, dairy, wastewater, and food waste feedstocks across North America. For more information, please visit www.viridirng.com. Follow Viridi Energy on LinkedIn.

About Casella

Casella Waste Systems, Inc., headquartered in Rutland, Vermont, is one of the largest recyclers and most experienced fully integrated resource management companies in the Eastern United States. Founded in 1975 as a single truck collection service, Casella has grown its operations to provide solid waste collection and disposal, transfer, recycling, and organics services to more than one million residential, commercial, municipal, institutional, and industrial customers and provides professional resource management services to over 10,000 customer locations in more than 40 states.

Casella Safe Harbor Statement

Certain matters discussed in this press release, including, but not limited to, the statements regarding intentions, beliefs or current expectations concerning, among other things, the benefits of the proposed program, are “forward-looking statements” intended to qualify for the safe harbors from liability established by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can generally be identified as such by the context of the statements, including words such as “believe,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “plan,” “may,” “would,” “intend,” “estimate,” "will," “guidance” and other similar expressions, whether in the negative or affirmative. These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections about the industry and markets in which Casella operates and management’s beliefs and assumptions. Casella cannot guarantee that it actually will achieve the benefits disclosed in the forward-looking statements made. Such forward-looking statements, and all phases of Casella's operations, involve a number of risks and uncertainties, any one or more of which could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in its forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include or relate to, among other things, the following: the biosolids digester plant in Brunswick, Maine may not be successfully converted into a waste-to-RNG facility or generate renewable energy that can be used to power the local community; the operation of such plant may not be sustainable as a cost-effective solution for managing biosolids, and such operation may not satisfy laws and regulations aimed at mitigating per-and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) contamination in the region as they may evolve from time to time.