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SC Johnson, Clorox, Reckitt Products Fail in Online Safety Guide

Cleaning products made by Clorox, SC Johnson and Reckitt Benckiser are among hundreds that received failing grades in an online safety and disclosure guide published by the Environmental Working Group. The online guide covers more than 2,000 household cleaners. The non-profit’s staff scientists spent 14 months examining product labels, company ... Read more »

Rio+20: Coke, Unilever, Other Giants Lead Natural Capital Initiative; Plus a Summit Business News Roundup

The Coca-Cola Company, Dow Chemical and Duke Energy are among 24 major companies that have agreed to develop a methodology to assign value to the world’s forests, freshwater and marine systems. The Corporate Eco Forum and The Nature Conservancy are leading the Valuing Natural Capital initiative, announced at the United ... Read more »

90% of Cleaning Products at Whole Foods Meet Ingredient Disclosure Rule

More than 90 percent of the household cleaning products sales at Whole Foods Market pass muster under the company’s Eco-Scale rating system, a year after the launch of the program, which requires full ingredient disclosure on these products’ labels. Whole Foods Market now sells more than 275 Eco-Scale-rated products from ... Read more »

Clorox Puts Ingredient Lists in the Palm of Consumers’ Hands

Clorox has launched a smartphone application to help consumers look up the ingredients of its household and commercial products. The Clorox Ingredients Inside App and mobile website are an extension of the company’s Ingredients Inside program, which in February 2010 began publishing ingredients lists for hundreds of the company’s products ... Read more »

Standards & Compliance Briefing: Climate Registry First, New EV Standards, RoHS Recast

3Degrees, a San Francisco based green energy consultant, announced on Wednesday that it has become the first company in North America to be recognized by The Climate Registry. The company earned the registry’s Climate Registered Silver designation, a certification given to organizations that have measured their carbon footprint in the ... Read more »

Clorox Integrated Report Shows Progress on Energy, GHGs, Water, Waste

Clorox has released its first integrated financial, environmental, social and governance report, which shows that energy consumption fell from 1.81 to 1.78 MWh per 1,000 cases last year, a 1.6 percent drop. Energy use fell from 764,000 to 743,000 MWh last year on an absolute basis. Since 2007 the company ... Read more »

Procter & Gamble Cuts Scope 2 GHGs, but Scope 1 Rises

Procter & Gamble’s scope 1 CO2 emissions rose from 2.8 million to 2.9 million metric tons in 2011, but scope 2 emissions fell from 1.4 to 1.3 million metric tons, and percentage of waste recycled rose from 63 to 69 percent, according to its 2011 sustainability report. The company says ... Read more »

Comcast, Honeywell Slammed by CDP; UPS Tops Latest Rankings

UPS, Consolidated Edison and Dow Chemical are among the top-ranked U.S. companies in the Carbon Disclosure Project’s annual carbon performance and disclosure ratings for the S&P 500, as more and more corporations are putting senior executives in charge of climate change programs. The CDP S&P 500 Report 2011, written by ... Read more »

Investors Blast 43 Firms for ‘Contradictory’ Climate Stance

AT&T, GE, GM and Ford are among the who’s who of corporate America that has been accused of taking contradictory positions on climate change, in letters by almost two dozen investors and investment groups managing $202 billion in assets. Investors led by Calvert Investment Management and Walden Asset Management sent ... Read more »

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