The scale of Walmart’s renewable energy efforts are no where near the scale of the company’s operations.
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New Report Reveals Walmart’s Climate Impact
Today, ILSR issued a report on Walmart’s rapidly expanding climate pollution and joined with leading environmental organizations in calling for change.
EDF Sells Green Cred to Walmart for the Low, Low Price of $66 Million
Environmental Defense Fund, a big cheerleader for Walmart’s sustainability efforts, gets about an eighth of its budget from the Walton family, the same folks who control Walmart.
Walmart’s Latest “Buy America” Sham
In a way, Walmart’s Buy America program represents the home stretch of the economic transformation the company set in motion decades ago, when it set out to replace the American middle class, rooted in small business ownership and unionized jobs, with a vast underclass that has little choice but to rely on Walmart’s shoddy, short-lived products.
Here’s One Smart Way to Handle Big-Box Stores
Cape Cod is the rare community that considers regional economic impacts when weighing big-box retail development, and that makes all the difference.
New Data Show How Big Chains Free Ride on Taxpayers at the Expense of Responsible Small Businesses
State data reveal that Walmart, Target, Whole Foods, and others offer such low pay and benefits that many of their employees rely on public assistance, at a cost of billions of dollars a year.
Why Walmart’s Death Grip on Our Food System Is Intensifying Poverty
When Michelle Obama visited a Walmart in Springfield, Missouri, a few weeks ago to praise the company’s efforts to sell healthier food, she did not say why she chose a store in Springfield of all cities. But, in ways that Obama surely did not intend, it was a fitting choice. This Midwestern city provides a chilling look at where Walmart wants to take our food system.
Bangladesh Fire Shows Why We Can’t Trust Walmart to Green Its Supply Chain
If Walmart will not pay 3 percent more for basic fire safety, if it readily abandons factories when cheaper production can be had elsewhere, if it declines even to come clean about where its goods are made – then how can we buy Walmart’s claim that it will transform factories across Asia into models of sustainability?