Last week, consumers in four states filed a proposed class action against Amazon, accusing the company of greenwashing by misleading consumers about the sustainability of the company’s Amazon Basics line of paper products....more
3/24/2025
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In January, we reported that a judge in the Southern District of New York refused to dismiss a class action alleging that “carbon neutral” claims on bottles of Evian water were misleading. The judge determined that the term...more
The deadline for the California law requiring disclosure of information substantiating carbon reduction claims is January 1, 2025, so companies should begin working on these disclosure statements if they are not underway or...more
Last week, the Environmental Working Group (“EWG”) filed a lawsuit against Tyson Foods in DC Superior Court under the DC Consumer Protection Procedures Act (“CPPA”), accusing the country’s second-largest meat company of...more
In October, we posted that California had enacted the Voluntary Carbon Market Disclosure Act (or “VCMDA”), a law that aims to force companies to more clearly disclose the basis for their carbon reduction claims. The VCMDA...more
Plaintiffs recently filed a class action lawsuit against Delta, alleging that the airline’s “carbon-neutral” claims, such as: “Carbon Neutral Since March 2020,” and “travel confidently knowing that we will offset the carbon...more