December 12, 2023
Britain’s competition watchdog said on Tuesday it would scrutinize environmental claims made by UK consumer goods giant Unilever about certain household essential items, amid a wider crackdown on greenwashing. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it is seeking to …
November 12, 2019
Ben & Jerry’s has been sued by an environmental advocate who said it deceived consumers by touting that the milk and cream it uses to make ice cream came exclusively from “happy cows.” In a complaint filed last week, James …
July 13, 2018
It’s summer in America, and that means action-packed movies, piles of hot dogs and plenty of ice cream. But according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday by a consumer food-advocacy group, if your choice of ice cream is Ben & Jerry’s, …
October 1, 2015
It’s all a masquerade. The business world has not embraced action on climate change as statements from some corporations seem to indicate. So says a new watchdog group out of London. Nonprofit InfluenceMap late last month launched a website, along …