Sephora sets the standard for bringing clean, safer products to the marketplace

4 years 1 month ago
Last week, Sephora released a report that shows how the company is bringing products with fewer harmful ingredients to the marketplace. Sephora set the industry standard for advancing safe products by becoming the first major specialty beauty retailer to issue a chemicals policy last summer. The new report details how Sephora, in partnership with EDF, […]
Alissa Sasso

Sephora sets the standard for bringing clean, safer products to the marketplace

4 years 1 month ago
Last week, Sephora released a report that shows how the company is bringing products with fewer harmful ingredients to the marketplace. Sephora set the industry standard for advancing safe products by becoming the first major specialty beauty retailer to issue a chemicals policy last summer. The new report details how Sephora, in partnership with EDF, […]
Alissa Sasso

Walmart and J.B. Hunt give glimpse of trucking’s future

4 years 1 month ago
It’s an everyday scene in Southern California: a big rig hauling a metal shipping container from a port facility to a distribution center or rail yard. Last week, this old story got a new twist with a 120-mile emission-free haul featuring two shipping behemoths from Northwest Arkansas: Walmart and J.B. Hunt. Our nation’s two biggest […]
Jason Mathers

Walmart and J.B. Hunt give glimpse of trucking’s future

4 years 1 month ago
It’s an everyday scene in Southern California: a big rig hauling a metal shipping container from a port facility to a distribution center or rail yard. Last week, this old story got a new twist with a 120-mile emission-free haul featuring two shipping behemoths from Northwest Arkansas: Walmart and J.B. Hunt. Our nation’s two biggest […]
Jason Mathers

Walmart and J.B. Hunt give glimpse of trucking’s future

4 years 1 month ago
It’s an everyday scene in Southern California: a big rig hauling a metal shipping container from a port facility to a distribution center or rail yard. Last week, this old story got a new twist with a 120-mile emission-free haul featuring two shipping behemoths from Northwest Arkansas: Walmart and J.B. Hunt. Our nation’s two biggest […]
Jason Mathers

Walmart and J.B. Hunt give glimpse of trucking’s future

4 years 1 month ago
It’s an everyday scene in Southern California: a big rig hauling a metal shipping container from a port facility to a distribution center or rail yard. Last week, this old story got a new twist with a 120-mile emission-free haul featuring two shipping behemoths from Northwest Arkansas: Walmart and J.B. Hunt. Our nation’s two biggest […]
Jason Mathers

Climate, capital and COVID: What’s an energy executive to do?

4 years 1 month ago
Mark Brownstein co-authored this post. We’re hearing more oil and gas companies pledging to reinvent themselves for a new, low carbon energy era. This conversation is unfolding as those same companies grapple with massive impacts of the global pandemic, as well as competitive challenges from cleaner, often cheaper alternatives that had been gaining steam well […]
Ben Ratner

Sephora partners with EDF to bring safer prestige beauty products to the marketplace

4 years 1 month ago
Sephora and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) announce their partnership to advance the removal of toxic ingredients that are known to cause environmental and health impacts from products. Sephora was the first major specialty beauty retailer to set a chemicals policy, a bold step forward in bringing safer products to the marketplace. The groundbreaking policy aims to remove chemicals of concern from private and third-party brands sold online and in-store.
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Lyft and Ford are leading on climate action. What are YOUR favorite brands doing?

4 years 1 month ago
The net-zero greenhouse gas commitments made by companies – along with implementation of innovative technological solutions – is slowly shifting markets away from business as usual. As consumers, employees or investors, we need to ensure that this momentum can be leveraged to move to a 100% clean economy where all companies across the spectrum are […]
Khyati Rathore

The low-carbon energy transition: a new chapter

4 years 1 month ago
EDF announces the expansion of the EDF + Business program with the hiring of Andrew Baxter and Ratnika Prasad, both new members of the Harvard Leadership Fellows program. Andrew and Ratnika are joining EDF at a pivotal time, as we continue to build momentum among investors, corporates, and policymakers to eliminate oil and gas methane […]
Ben Ratner

How social science can inform engineers working on coastal restoration

4 years 1 month ago

Growing up in Minnesota, I loved swimming and kayaking along the Mississippi River. This summer, as part of my EDF internship I learned about life 2,000 miles downriver in Louisiana. To both Minnesota and Louisiana, the Mississippi River is culturally and economically important, but also poses risks that will worsen as climate change progresses. In high school, I remember stuffing and laying sandbags to protect my teacher’s home from flooding ahead of a storm. And storms like those are expected ...

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How social science can inform engineers working on coastal restoration

4 years 1 month ago

Growing up in Minnesota, I loved swimming and kayaking along the Mississippi River. This summer, as part of my EDF internship I learned about life 2,000 miles downriver in Louisiana. To both Minnesota and Louisiana, the Mississippi River is culturally and economically important, but also poses risks that will worsen as climate change progresses. In high school, I remember stuffing and laying sandbags to protect my teacher’s home from flooding ahead of a storm. And storms like those are expected ...

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