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"Skip the Slip" Report Finds Most Retailers Get Low Score For Receipt Practices

WASHINGTON, D.C.—June 25, 2019—Only three retailers – Best Buy, Apple and Ben & Jerry’s – get top marks in how they deal with electronic and paper receipts, according to a Green America report providing an overview of the practices of 36 top US companies. On the other end of the spectrum, 17 companies earned a “D” rating, including Walgreens and Chipotle, for only offering paper receipts coated with bisphenol A (BPA) or bisphenol S (BPS).

Green America: Largest Kids' Clothes Retailer Should Improve Transparency on Chemical Usage and Eliminate Toxins That Harm Workers and Consumers

WASHINGTON, D.C.—MAY 14, 2019—Carter’s, the leading retailer of baby and children’s clothing in the US is not transparent about the toxins and other chemicals used to manufacture its clothing.

Green America: Sprint Falls to Lowest Grade in Updated Wireless Scorecard and Industry Report

Washington, D.C. - April 30, 2019 – Sprint is now in last place on Green America’s Wireless Scorecard For Use of Clean Energy after failing to meet its goal of 10% clean energy by 2017 or provide updated data. According to Green America’s updated “Clean Energy is Calling” report, T-Mobile is the clear leader with a 100% commitment to clean energy by 2021 and several contracts with wind farms already in place. AT&T, the biggest non-utility purchaser of wind power in the U.S.

The Green (Thumb) New Deal: “Climate Victory Gardens” Tops 1,000 Milestone, Green America Releases New How-To-Guide

WASHINGTON, DC – March 13, 2019 – Green America marked a major milestone this month: over 1,000 registered Climate Victory Gardens in the U.S., a major achievement on the road to the target for 2019 of 5,000 such carbon-capturing plots for fruit and vegetables. The existing 1,100 Climate Victory Gardens already equal 140 football fields of healthy plants that are healing the soil. Green America took note of the occasion to release Climate Victory Gardening 101: A toolkit for growing healthy food for a healthy planet.

Is There Child Labor in Your Halloween Candy? Chocolate Scorecard Identified Good, Ghoulish Companies

WASHINGTON, DC – October 11, 2018 – This Halloween, much of the candy that trick-or-treaters will receive will have been produced by their own peers — child laborers working halfway around the world. More than 2 million children in Western Africa work in often hazardous conditions growing the main ingredient in chocolate, cocoa.

Rosario Dawson And Ron Finley Promote Effort To Go Beyond Sustainability And Become “Regenerative” With Climate Victory Gardens Video

WASHINGTON, DC – Green America and Kiss the Ground today premiered a new video on Upworthy featuring actress and political activist Rosario Dawson, and Gangsta Gardener and “Ecolutionary” Artist Ron Finley, touting the “Climate Victory Garden” campaign that encourages Americans to plant “regenerative” backyard or community gardens to help combat climate change. 

Green America’s Center for Sustainability Solutions To Host Event on Investing in Agricultural Climate Solutions

SAN FRANCISCO – NEWS ADVISORY –  Carbon Sequestration in Soil: Scaling Investment, a full-day event for investors and project developers, produced by Green America's Center for Sustainability Solutions, will explore how to shift capital at scale to build agricultural market solutions to the global climate crisis.  This invitation-only event is now

Green America Urges CVS To Improve Receipt Practices, Keep Pace With Leading Retail Chains

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Green America launched its "Skip the Slip, CVS" campaign urging the pharmacy giant to improve its paper receipt practices to keep pace with other leading retailers. CVS is one of the largest retailers in the country and issues some of the longest receipts to customers. The chain's receipts contain the toxin Bisphenol-S (BPS), and its millions of paper receipts contribute to deforestation and pollution.

"Making American Green Again:" Largest Ever Victory Garden Project Since World War II Launched

May 21, 2018//Washington DC//Americans who want to fight climate change and high food bills are being urged today to follow the World War II lead of their grandparents by planting a “Climate Victory Garden” in order to reduce carbon emissions while growing safe, healthy and less expensive food. 

Major Food Companies Join to Address Climate Change and Healthy Soils by Creating a New Standard Focused on Regenerative Agriculture

LOS ANGELES (March 6, 2018) - The Carbon Underground and Green America, in partnership with Ben & Jerry’s (Unilever), DanoneWave, Annie’s (General Mills), and MegaFood have begun development of a global verification standard for food grown in a regenerative manner.

Green America: FERC Made the Right Decision in Rejecting Subsidies for Coal and Nuclear

Washington, D.C. – January 9, 2018 – Green America is pleased that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has announced that it is terminating the Department of Energy (DOE) Proposal to provide market-based incentives to coal and nuclear power plant owners. Green America, on behalf of its 250,000 individual and 2,000 business members filed comments in opposition to subsidizing coal and nuclear plants.