- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By Kyle Brasseur2024-02-27T12:25:00
Retail giant Walmart announced the completion of an initiative to reduce emissions in its supply chain six years earlier than its intended target.
In 2017, the store launched “Project Gigaton.” Its goal was to work with its suppliers to reduce, avoid, or sequester 1 gigaton (1 billion metric tons) of greenhouse gas emissions in product value chains by 2030.
On Feb. 20, Walmart Chief Executive Doug McMillon revealed the goal has already been reached.
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2024-03-12T19:33:00Z By Adrianne Appel
Ford Motor Co. agreed to pay $365 million to settle charges levied by the Department of Justice that the automaker purposefully dodged import duties for years by mislabeling and undervaluing hundreds of thousands of cargo vans it brought into the United States from Turkey.
2024-02-27T20:34:00Z By Adrianne Appel
Environmental, social, and governance issues are increasingly material to investors, and the Securities and Exchange Commission is checking to ensure businesses’ ESG statements are above board, according to the agency’s enforcement director.
2023-09-26T13:27:00Z By Adrianne Appel
Companies that haven’t yet set up verifiable reporting in their sustainability programs have a ready reference available in the framework put out by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission, experts discussed at CW’s virtual ESG Summit.
2025-04-10T18:00:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
President Donald Trump has issued an executive order slamming state-led efforts to address climate change, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and other environmental, social, and governance (ESG)-related laws.
2025-04-09T20:52:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
Some companies doing business in California and New York may soon be required to report the greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) of their operations to state authorities, even as the federal rule for disclosing such emissions is on life support.
2025-03-13T21:25:00Z By Ruth Prickett
The European Commission has adopted proposals for radical simplifications to the EU’s trailblazing environmental regulations. The commissioners argue that this is a pragmatic response to changing global economics and indicates that they have listened to the concerns of smaller businesses that are struggling to comply with onerous and conflicting rules. ...
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