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Recent Green Guides Articles
EU to Ban Greenwashing and Much More
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-11-25T19:37:23-05:00Saturday, November 25th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: climate neutral, Green Guides, greenwashing, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow|
The EU Parliament and Council have reached a provisional agreement on new rules to ban misleading environmental marketing claims. The agreement reached on September 19, 2023, updates the existing EU list of banned commercial practices and adds to it several problematic marketing habits characterized as ...
Guidance on Avoiding Greenwashing while Providing Input Down Under
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-08-13T17:14:28-04:00Sunday, August 13th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Environmental and Sustainability Guidance, FTC, Green Guides, greenwashing, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow|
The Australian government has issued draft Environmental and Sustainability Guidance describing the obligations under Australian consumer law which businesses must comply with when making environmental and sustainability claims. The Guidance released on July 14, 2023, sets out what the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission considers ...
H&M Wins Dismissal of Greenwashing Lawsuit
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-05-29T16:20:39-04:00Sunday, May 28th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Green Guides, greenwashing, H&M, Kaplow, recycle, Stuart Kaplow|
Abraham Lizama bought a turquoise knitted sweater in H&M's “The Conscious Choice” collection from a retail store in St. Louis. According to Lizama, he believed this meant his sweater was made using “more sustainable and environmentally friendly” manufacturing practices. However, he now claims this sweater ...
FTC Seeks Public Input on Update to Green Guides for Environmental Claims
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-12-18T13:59:31-05:00Saturday, December 17th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Federal Trade Commission, FTC, Green Guides, green hushing, greenwashing, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow|
The Federal Trade Commission announced last Wednesday that it is seeking public comment on updates and changes to the Green Guides for the Use of Environmental Claims. In an era when charges of greenwashing and green hushing are proliferating across social media while at the same ...
FTC Says Updated Green Guides are Coming
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-09-17T22:43:41-04:00Saturday, September 17th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ESG, Green Guides, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow|
With allegations of greenwashing all but de rigueur, businesses should be on the alert for the soon to be released Federal Trade Commission’s updated Green Guides. This year companies are being publicly challenged and having their reputations tarnished for greenwashing, in some instances for deceptive ...
New Greenwashing Case is Troubling to Future of ESG
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-08-20T18:07:30-04:00Saturday, July 23rd, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ESG, FossielVrij NL, FossielVrij NL v KLM, Green Guides, greenwashing, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow|
On July 6, FossielVrij NL filed a greenwashing lawsuit in the Amsterdam District Court against Dutch airline KLM. The overseas litigation is troubling because at its core the theory of the case is apocalyptic environmentalism, the belief that unless humans drastically reduce consumption population growth ...