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Greenwashing (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Is Earth Day obsolete greenwashing?

Matthew Rozsa
Volunteers are seen collecting waste and plastic during the cleaning of San Andrés Beach ahead of World Environment Day on June 5th. (Jesus Merida/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Is "plastic neutral" greenwashing?

Joseph Winters - Grist
Teacher teaching about wind energy (Getty Images/andreswd)

Universities have to do more for climate

Peter W. Reiners
Climate activists protest Chase Bank's continued funding of the fossil fuel industry by setting up a tripod-blockade in midtown Manhattan. (Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

"Net zero" banks greenwashing

Lyric Aquino - Grist
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Plastic pollution in the ocean (Getty Images)

Corporations have co-opted climate talks

Kate Yoder - Grist
Working oil pumps against a sunset sky (Getty Images/imaginima)

Oil companies amp up their greenwashing

Kate Yoder - Grist
The US Coast Guard is investigating a broken pipeline to this oil platform, named Elly, that has spewed tens of thousands of gallons of crude oil into the sea off California. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

Big Oil's actions louder than words

Kate Yoder - Grist
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How restaurant chains can cut pollution

Joseph Winters - Grist
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Oil refinery, owned by Exxon Mobil (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Exxon's greenwashing faces blowback

Jon Skolnik
British-Dutch oil and gas company Royal Dutch Shell PLC sign , commonly known as Shell (Aleksander Kalka/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Shell sponsors museum exhibit on climate

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
A pigeon flies over a Exxon mobil gas station (Kena Betancur/VIEWpress/Corbis via Getty Images)

Companies lobby against emission targets

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
British-Dutch oil and gas company Royal Dutch Shell PLC sign , commonly known as Shell (Aleksander Kalka/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Big Oil is awash in rainbows for Pride

Kate Yoder - Grist
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Goldman Sachs Headquarters in Manhattan, NY, going green (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Goldman Sachs' climate greenwashing

Jon Skolnik
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Talking green while lobbying brown

Tom Lyon, Magali (Maggie) Delmas - The Conversation
(Reuters/Kevork Djansezian)

Wal-mart greenwashing exposed

Lindsay Abrams
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Lindsay Abrams
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Pepsi's bad "hipster" makeover

Lindsay Abrams
Unilever headquarters in Hamburg, Germany (Wikimedia Commons)

Lindsay Abrams
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-62044p1.html'>Kim Seidl</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/user_view.php?id=1226820'>samdiesel</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>/Salon)

The 1 percent's sick new scam

David Sirota
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