04 Oct, 2024 California AG Sues Exxon Mobile For Plastic Pollution and Misrepresenting Benefits of Recycling By Terri Seligman Describing its action as the “first-of-its-kind lawsuit seek[ing] to hold one of the largest petrochemical companies in the world...
02 Sep, 2024 Coca-Cola Must Once Again Face "Sustainable" Lawsuit By Jordyn Milewski On Thursday, the D.C. Court of Appeals revived a lawsuit against Coca-Cola over allegedly deceptive environmental marketing claims. The...
01 Jul, 2024 UN Secretary-General Urges Countries to Ban Fossil Fuel Advertising; Tells Ad Agencies to Drop Fossil Fuel Clients By Jordyn Milewski In a speech on World Environment Day, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for a ban on fossil fuel advertising, and called on...
26 Jun, 2024 You're Invited: IAA Fireside Chat with the Institute for Advertising Ethics By Jeff Greenbaum On July 9, 2023, the International Advertising Association will be hosting a virtual fireside chat with Andrew Susman, the President of...
24 Jun, 2024 You're Invited: "Instigating a Race to the Top: Greenwash Prevention" By Jeff Greenbaum On June 26th, the Institute for Advertising Ethics will be hosting a “Boardroom Ethics Briefing” entitled “Instigating a Race to the Top:...
26 Apr, 2024 The EU Directive Empowering Consumers for the Green Transition Has Been Adopted By Donata Cordone Thanks to Livia Petrucci for collaborating on this article The EU Directive empowering consumers for the green transition through better...
27 Mar, 2024 CMA (finally!) resolves investigation into fashion retailers, issues open letter to fashion industry By Geraint Lloyd-Taylor Way back in July 2022, the CMA (Competition and Markets Authority) put fashion retailers under its very own spotlight by launching...
26 Jun, 2023 ASA announces stricter interpretation of green claims, with greater emphasis on social responsibility. By Brinsley Dresden Geraint Lloyd-Taylor On Friday 23rd June the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority issued an updated version of their guidance on misleading environmental...
12 May, 2023 Greenwashing - EU might set bar even higher than UK By Geraint Lloyd-Taylor Over the past few years, the UK regulators concerned with combating ‘greenwashing’ - i.e., the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)...
06 May, 2021 Less Is More: Emissions Labeling in the Fashion Industry By Chibundu Okwuosa In April 2020, Allbirds announced that it would begin labeling each item it produced with its carbon footprint to promote carbon...
23 Apr, 2021 NYC Sues Exxon, Shell, BP, and the American Petroleum Institute, Alleging Greenwashing By Jeff Greenbaum On Earth Day, the City of New York filed suit against Exxon, Shell, BP, and the American Petroleum Institute, alleging that they violated...
29 Jan, 2021 40% of websites are "greenwashing", according to global website sweep By Alex Meloy A global sweep of over 500 websites has found that as many as 40% of them appear to be making misleading environmental claims that are...
22 Dec, 2020 Commissioner Chopra Calls on FTC to Take Further Action Against "Greenwashing" By Jeff Greenbaum In a Statement issued in conjunction with the Federal Trade Commission's update of its Energy Labeling Rule, FTC Commissioner Rohit...