Greenwashing (green whitewash) is the practice of companies disingenuously spinning their products and policies as environmentally friendly, such as by presenting cost cuts as reductions in use of resources.[1] It is a deceptive use of green PR or green marketing. The term green sheen has similarly been used to describe organizations that attempt to show that they are adopting practices beneficial to the environment.

This page is an in-process listing to document some major corporate and organization greenwashers, and will articulate their policies.

this list is in-process, more listings will be added

NRDC

The NRDC’s International, National and Regional Betrayals of Sound Environmental Policies

-  Greatest (Environmental) Hits – A History of Betrayals

-  Greenwashing in “Partnership” with the Worst Polluters (NRDC and USCAP)

-  Natural Resources Defense Council’s Board of Directors, their Conflicts of Interest and other interesting financial information

-  Promoting Methane Gas as a Transitional Fuel without Any Scientific Evidence of its Life-cycle Emissions being Lower Than Coal’s or Oil’s. (1.5 minute video of Laura Sheinkopf from the Safe Water Movement (SWiM))


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