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Recent Green Guides Articles

25Nov, 2023

EU to Ban Greenwashing and Much More

By |Saturday, November 25th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , |

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 ...

13Aug, 2023

Guidance on Avoiding Greenwashing while Providing Input Down Under

By |Sunday, August 13th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , |

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 ...

28May, 2023

H&M Wins Dismissal of Greenwashing Lawsuit

By |Sunday, May 28th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , |

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 ...

17Dec, 2022

FTC Seeks Public Input on Update to Green Guides for Environmental Claims

By |Saturday, December 17th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , |

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 ...

17Sep, 2022

FTC Says Updated Green Guides are Coming

By |Saturday, September 17th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , |

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 ...

23Jul, 2022

New Greenwashing Case is Troubling to Future of ESG

By |Saturday, July 23rd, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , |

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 ...

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