Climate Counts

By Claudia Deutsch
Published: June 19, 2007
NY Times

Climate Counts' Environmental Scorecard

Climate Counts, a new nonprofit group, wants consumers to think about more than taste or service when they make those decisions. It wants them to consider the companies’ records in adding to or curbing climate change.

In a scorecard to be released today, the group will rank 56 consumer companies, grouped by industry, on how they measure greenhouse gas emissions, their plans to reduce them, their support or opposition to regulation and — most important, says Wood Turner, the group’s executive director — how fully they disclose those activities.

“If the information is not in the consumers’ hands, they can’t make informed choices,” Mr. Turner said.

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