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18375 December 8, 2022 Climate, Labor Cool It for Climate Fight Dirty Energy, End Child Labor "Don't Discount Our Future" Campaign Targets Trader Joe's Cocoa Sourcing and Climate-Damaging Refrigeration New campaign pushes Trader Joe's to address its cocoa sourcing and climate-damaging refrigeration.
18344 December 1, 2020 Labor, Social Justice End Child Labor Cocoa Barometer 2020: No Meaningful Progress Made in 20 Years of Business Model That Ensures Poverty For Farmers, Communities Report: The Solutions Start With Government Regulation to Ensure Industry Pays Farmers A Living Income and Ends Human Rights Abuses, Including Over One Million Cases of Child Labor, and Deforestation
18264 November 4, 2020 Climate Skip the Slip to Reduce Paper Receipts Save Trees: Green America's Better Paper Project, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Success!: CVS Responds to Consumers and Takes Significant Steps to "Skip the Slip," Move to Digital, Non-toxic Receipts
18247 November 28, 2022 Labor End Child Labor NGOs: Are Industry and Governments Watering Down New Cocoa Report Data to Downplay Persistent Child Labor and Farmer Poverty? Leaked Documents Show Industry More Concerned About Messaging Than Farmer Poverty
18131 December 5, 2022 Finance Strategies for Shareholder Activism Green America: Investors Oppose SEC Rule To “Turn Back The Clock” On Shareholder Progress On Climate, Corporate Lobbying, Pay Disparity Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to undermine the shareholder resolution process and thereby the ability of investors to pressure corporations to be accountable for their social and environmental impacts
18117 October 2, 2023 Climate Cool It for Climate Fight Dirty Energy 100,000+ Consumers Say Walmart Should Not Put Off Curbing Climate-Harming Refrigerants for 20 Years Green America's Cool It campaign responds to Walmart's new goals: 100,000+ consumers say Walmart shouldn't put off curbing refrigerants.
18102 September 17, 2020 Climate, Finance Fight Dirty Energy, Socially Responsible Investing In industry first, 60 companies call on US insurers to drop fossil fuels For the first time, business policyholders have publicly called on US insurers to drop coal, oil, and gas.
18098 September 16, 2020 Food Sustainable Food, Industrial Agriculture Over 157,000 Consumers Call on Home Depot and Lowe’s to End Sales of Cancer-Linked Roundup After thousands of lawsuits linking plaintiffs’ cancer to glyphosate exposure, glyphosate should no longer be available for sale.
17701 July 21, 2020 Climate Cool It for Climate Fight Dirty Energy New Video: Gases 9,000 Times Worse for Climate than Carbon are Leaking from Walmart Stores and other Supermarkets
17406 July 2, 2020 Finance Divest & Reinvest , The Green America Credit Card, Break Up with Your Mega-Bank Report: The Pathway to Decarbonization is Clear, But Banks Resist Needed Action New “Triple A” Status Urged for Banks That Act on Climate Safety, Sustainability and Resilience.
17252 September 18, 2020 Climate Tell the communications industry to act on energy justice and clean energy Fight Dirty Energy Verizon Falls to the Bottom of Clean Energy Ranking of Telecoms
17297 June 9, 2020 Food Soil SuperHeroes Green America’s Center for Sustainability Solutions Welcomes New Senior Director of Climate & Agriculture Networks Green America’s Center for Sustainability Solutions is proud to announce and welcome Courtney Pineau as Senior Director of Climate & Agriculture Networks.
16298 October 3, 2023 Labor Carter's: End Toxic Textiles in Children's Clothing Toxic Textiles Carter's Responds to Calls to Remove Toxic Chemicals from Baby Clothes, Improve Sustainability Practices Green America Praises Clothing Manufacturer on “Good First Step,” But Urges Further Action to Protect Workers and The Environment
16284 April 7, 2020 Labor Tell Godiva: End Child Labor End Child Labor World’s Largest Chocolate Companies Rated on Efforts to End Environmental and Labor Abuses
16267 November 27, 2022 Food, Climate Re(Store) It!, Climate Victory Gardens Sustainable Food, Food & Climate Quarantined Americans Turning to WWII-Era Inspired “Climate Victory Gardens” to Grow Food, Improve Environment With already over 2,400 gardens taking part in the Climate Victory Garden movement, this number is rising.
16196 October 4, 2023 Climate A Call for Climate Justice. Amazon: Build a Cleaner and Fairer Cloud Fight Dirty Energy Green America: Amazon Responds to Pressure to Clean Up Its Cloud Green America’s “Build a Cleaner Cloud” Urged Amazon to Address Climate and Protect Workers.
15946 November 28, 2022 Labor End Child Labor As Valentine's Approaches, Major Retailers Rated on Whether Chocolate Products Address Child Labor, Deforestation and Fair Trade New Retailer Scorecard Rates Grocery Stores on Social Responsibility and Sustainability in Cocoa Supply Chain.
15765 October 16, 2019 Food, Climate Soil SuperHeroes Food & Climate World Food Day: Danone North America, Megafood, Anheuser-Busch and Local Farms are Saving Our Soils to Fight Climate Change “Soil SuperHeroes”: From Local Farms To The Largest Companies, Business Leaders Are Saving Our Soils And Solving Climate Change.
15745 December 5, 2022 Labor End Child Labor Green America Chocolate Scorecard: Keep Child Labor Out of Your Kid’s Halloween Candy Mars, Nestle and Hershey All in “C” Range, Godiva Gets “F” Rating, in child labor Chocolate Scorecard.
15723 October 8, 2019 Green Business 2 Outstanding Environmentally Responsible Companies Honored in Closing Round of Prestigious Green Business Award Best of The Green Economy: Philadelphia and San Francisco Businesses Win the Final People & Planet Award.
15478 December 11, 2022 Climate Tell the communications industry to act on energy justice and clean energy Fight Dirty Energy, Grow Clean Energy Green America Applauds T-Mobile, AT&T, and Sprint for Major New Advances on Renewable Energy T-Mobile Still In the Lead and Poised to Reach Its 100 Percent Commitment By 2021 Deadline; Green America’s “Hang Up On Fossil Fuels” Campaign Spurs AT&T and Sprint to Move Faster on Clean Energy.
15319 November 28, 2022 Climate Cool It for Climate Fight Dirty Energy “Cool It” Campaign: Groups Take Aim at Walmart’s Massive Refrigerant Leakage Problem "Cool It" is the new campaign tackling the massive emissions from supermarkets like Walmart.
15196 September 27, 2020 Climate, Finance Clean Energy Victory Bonds Grow Clean Energy, Socially Responsible Investing Green America Praises Introduction of Clean Energy Victory Bond Act of 2019 in House and Senate Bills Would Allow All Americans To Invest In A Rapid Transition To Clean Energy For The United States
15185 September 23, 2020 Labor Carter's: End Toxic Textiles in Children's Clothing Choose Fair Labor, Toxic Textiles “Toxic Textiles” Report Finds Many Top US Apparel Retailers Coming Up Short Our new Toxic Textiles report dives into the policy and actions of top US retailers on chemical management, sustainability and transparency.
14739 June 26, 2019 Food, Climate Environmental and public interest groups demand EPA revoke Monsanto’s license to pollute Groups deliver 149,559 petitions as EPA considers extending glyphosate registration