Attention Wal-Mart Management: Clean-up on aisle ‘green’

May 18, 2009

Wal-Mart’s support for action on climate change has taken an ironic, but not unpredictable twist.

Last week, a California superior court judge overturned local approval of a Wal-Mart store because developers and officials failed to adequately consider the store’s greenhouse gas emissions, according to a report in Carbon Control News.

Click here for the ruling.

Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott admitted at last year’s Wall Street Journal ECO:nomics conference that his company had not done a cost-benefit analysis of its green advocacy efforts.

It’s starting to show.

One Response to “Attention Wal-Mart Management: Clean-up on aisle ‘green’”

  1. nigelf Says:

    I guess they figured if they talked the talk that nobody would notice they weren’t walking the walk.


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