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Greenwashing Faces New FTC Scrutiny

By Deborah Burstyn
[This article is a recap of the Green Media panel on May 19, 2009.]
Greenwash at your own risk. Greenwashing, a term used to describe the practice of companies deceptively promoting their products and policies as environmentally friendly, frustrates environmentally-conscious companies. Now, according to attorney Dan Myers, if the FTC catches a company [...]

Organisations have a deadline of 30 September, 2009 to join existing UK Climate Change Agreements

Sources: several of the sector associations that manage the UK Climate Change Agreements.
This is of relevance to UK organisations.
Several of the sectors have earlier sector deadlines for starting the sign up process. For example, one sector has a deadline of the end of March and another in July.
Climate Change Agreements provide organisations with an 80% [...]

Australia – combining fuel tax cuts with cap and trade

The design of Australia’s cap-and-trade scheme is emerging. It is likely to include petrol and among the details is a “cent for cent” fuel tax cut to balance the costs for motorists:
If motorists pay 5c extra a litre for petrol as a result of the scheme, fuel taxes will also be cut by 5c under [...]