The term greenwashing was coined by environmentalist Jay Westerveld in 1986 as a rebuke to companies that claimed to be environmentally friendly without offering any evidence to back up their claims.

Oil major TotalEnergies misled consumers in a 2021 ad campaign claiming it could become carbon neutral by 2050, a French ...

Consumers tend to see red when they’ve been misled by corporate greenwashing, new research finds. So-called greenwashing, when a business tries to leverage for marketing purposes fast-expanding public ...

Hundreds of companies have set climate goals to reach net zero emissions—or in some cases to become “carbon negative” or “carbon positive”—but some plans are less credible than others, and it’s ...

In a new survey of 1,491 executives across different industries around the world, CEOs and other C-suite leaders said that sustainability was a priority. But 58% also admitted that their companies ...

Judges ruled on Thursday that the energy giant had misled consumers by overstating its carbon neutrality goals. The case ...

Last month, an earplug maker sued a rival in federal district court in California, alleging that the competitor had engaged “ ...

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – 2021/09/01: Protesters carry a banner which says ‘Stop The Lies – Action Not Greenwash’ while marching during the demonstration outside Downing Street. Extinction Rebellion ...

PARIS - Oil and gas companies have increasingly come under legal attack over their role in contributing to global warming, yet unlike other industries that face tougher regulations they have not ...

A former worker at Cell Press Inc., who accused it and his ex-employer’s parent companies Elsevier Inc. and RELX PLC of greenwashing, missed a key filing window before bringing disability ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Green marketing represents a fraction of the $150 billion advertising industry. But from corporate offices to media firms, the buzz is ...