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Recent greenwashing Articles
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 ...
Green Hushing versus Confidentiality
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-11-12T21:35:08-05:00Saturday, November 12th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental law, ESG, green hushing, greenhushing, greenwashing, Kaplow, South Pole, Stuart Kaplow|
There is a new answer to the philosophical question, “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear, does it make a sound?” The answer has depended upon your definition of sound. If you define sound as our perceptions of ...
Net Zero Risks as a Source of Opportunity
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-10-22T18:59:27-04:00Saturday, October 22nd, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ESG, greenwashing, Kaplow, LEED Zero, net zero, SB 528, Stuart Kaplow|
Calculating net zero is ill defined, unregulated and complex. Businesses making a net zero pledge like, “we will be net zero by 2030” risk a charge that they are greenwashing and misleading consumers. It is one thing when government leaders make an ESG claim: In ...
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 ...








