Sentences with phrase «slick greenwashing»
The report, titled Walmart's Dirty Energy Secret: How the Company's Slick Greenwashing Hides Its Massive Coal Consumption, found that the company is «one of the nation's largest users of coal - fired electricity,» and that Walmart's dependence on dirty power «pumps nearly 8 million metric tons of carbon pollution into the air each year.»
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In its latest report, Walmart's Dirty Energy Secret: How the Company's Slick Greenwashing Hides Its Massive Coal Consumption, the Institute for Local Self - Reliance (ILSR) calculates the total electricity use, coal - fired power consumption and resulting greenhouse gas emissions of every Walmart store and distribution center in the country.
Walmart talks a lot of talk about its renewable energy initiatives, but a new ILSR report finds that all that hype is just slick greenwashing hiding the company's massive coal consumption.