Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 1, 2025

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Manufacturing

ESG Today

MAY 12, 2024

This week in ESG news: Microsoft signs record-breaking carbon removal deal; EY survey finds over half of CEOs say sustainability a higher priority vs one year ago; BCG sustainable aviation deal to cut 100,000 tons of emissions; ERM launches carbon credit consulting business; KKR & HASI launch $2 billion sustainable infrastructure investment partnership; (..)

Net Zero

James Militzer

MARCH 2, 2023

In retrospect, how should the VW CEO have reacted to the news from the EPA? Were the sustainability measures and corporate social responsibility offices at VW simply engaged in greenwashing? This case explores how the company’s culture and corporate governance structure may have contributed to this crisis.

Supply Chains

3BL Media

JULY 23, 2024

If what you're trying to do really is greenwashing, I'm sorry, you've left no room open for dialogue and for us, our faith as a society in corporate action. That allows us as a society to figure out solutions because as we it is challenging. But if you're not transparent, about your commitments. 00:25:14] Scott: 200, 000? [00:25:16]

Net Zero

Chris Hall

AUGUST 9, 2024

For climate campaigners who believe carbon offsetting is basically greenwashing, this was a disappointing development. This week, it emerged – thanks to reporting by local newspaper WAToday – that the project is being blocked by the Western Australian Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Climate, though, is not the concern.

Carbon Offsets

Stanford Social Innovation

AUGUST 25, 2022

Net-zero campaigns also spur well-intentioned, yet harmful, investments in greenwashed technologies , such as carbon capture tech, which are fossil-fuel and energy intensive and emit more carbon than they take away , undermining the central premise of net-zero. Following the recent EPA v. This summer’s West Virginia v.

Net Zero

CleanTechnica

MARCH 26, 2024

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had proposed a rule mandating that public companies report their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The idea was to provide information on material risks to investors and to spur companies’ customers and employees to force emissions reductions. But corporations will do nearly anything to.

Greenwashing

CleanTechnica

JULY 19, 2021

Developers of the already behind schedule and over-budget Mountain Valley Pipeline are hoping to head off mounting opposition to the controversial 300-mile project by promising to “offset” the greenhouse gas pollution caused by the gas pipeline’s future operations.

Development