{"id":503,"date":"2022-11-18T18:11:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T22:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/animallawdevelopments\/?p=503"},"modified":"2022-11-18T18:11:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T22:11:43","slug":"activist-greenwashing-case-in-d-c-runs-aground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/animallawdevelopments\/2022\/11\/18\/activist-greenwashing-case-in-d-c-runs-aground\/","title":{"rendered":"Activist Greenwashing Case In D.C. Runs Aground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Greenwashing,&#8221; a subject of frequent discussion, is defined by Merriam-Webster as &#8220;the act or practice of making a product, policy, activity, etc., appear to be more environmentally friendly or less environmentally damaging than it really is.&#8221;\u00a0 Greenwashing claims have become popular with activists trying to attack businesses in the animal space who make consumer-facing statements about their operations by using terms such as &#8220;sustainable&#8221; or &#8220;humane.&#8221;\u00a0 Read about a recent court decision in D.C. on greenwashing on the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/fashionretailbrandedconsumergoods\/2022\/11\/18\/activist-greenwashing-case-in-d-c-runs-aground\/\">Duane Morris Fashion, Retail and Consumer Branded Products Blog.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Greenwashing,&#8221; a subject of frequent discussion, is defined by Merriam-Webster as &#8220;the act or practice of making a product, policy, activity, etc., appear to be more environmentally friendly or less environmentally damaging than it really is.&#8221;\u00a0 Greenwashing claims have become popular with activists trying to attack businesses in the animal space who make consumer-facing statements &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/animallawdevelopments\/2022\/11\/18\/activist-greenwashing-case-in-d-c-runs-aground\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Activist Greenwashing Case In D.C. Runs Aground&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,891,5],"ppma_author":[697],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-animal-law","tag-greenwashing","tag-john-simpson"],"authors":[{"term_id":697,"user_id":317,"is_guest":0,"slug":"jmsimpson","display_name":"John M. Simpson","avatar_url":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/animallawdevelopments\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2018\/06\/simpsonjohn-125x150.jpg","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/animallawdevelopments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/animallawdevelopments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/animallawdevelopments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/animallawdevelopments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/animallawdevelopments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/animallawdevelopments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/animallawdevelopments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/animallawdevelopments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/animallawdevelopments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/animallawdevelopments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}