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SOIL & CLIMATE INITIATIVE UNVEILS GROUNDBREAKING VERIFICATION FRAMEWORK FOR REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE

WASHINGTON, DC — July 14, 2025 — Soil & Climate Initiative (SCI) has officially released its Commitment & Verification Standard, Version 3.0 – a game-changing framework that revolutionizes how regenerative agriculture is measured and verified. The enhanced standard builds on SCI’s proven success working with over 160 farms across 350,000 acres in 27 states. 

Green America: Kroger’s New 2024 ESG Report Shows Small Steps Forward on Climate-Warming Refrigerant

WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER 18, 2024 – Following the release of Kroger’s 2024 ESG report, the nonprofit Green America welcomed small steps forward and called on the company to take more serious action to address hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) emissions from its stores’ refrigeration systems.

Company Scorecard: U.S. Communications Industry Mostly Underperforming on Climate, Energy Justice Policies

Mobile was the best-performing company for renewable energy goals, renewable energy usage, greenhouse gas (GHG) goals, energy justice, transparency, and supply chain policy. The new report from Green America, titled Clean and Just Energy is Calling: The Communications Industry Needs to Listen, includes interviews with energy justice leaders on fostering a just energy transition, details the need to transition to renewable energy, reveals inequities that can be found within the renewable energy sector and steps for addressing them, and grades companies on whether their energy policies address the climate crisis and benefit Black, Latine, Indigenous and other communities facing environmental injustice.

National campaign launches to address recent child labor law violations, rollbacks.

Green America Joins 30+ Organizations to Demand Urgent Action

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 20, 2024 - On this World Social Justice Day, the Campaign to End US Child Labor calls for justice for the hundreds of thousands of children across the United States who are forced to work, often in hazardous conditions. Since 2015, US child labor violations have increased 300 percent and in the last three years alone instead of protecting children 28 states have sought to roll back child labor laws.

Toxic Pesticides: B&G Foods the Target of Major Campaign Urging Shift to Agriculture Techniques That Protect Environment, Workers

Owner of Popular Brands Like Green Giant, Skinnygirl and Ortega Under Pressure for Use of Pesticides that Harm Farmworkers and Pollinators, Lack of Regenerative Agriculture Practices.

WASHINGTON, DC – November 14, 2023 Green America launched

Green America Submits Letter for the Record to House Committee Ahead of Anti-ESG Hearings

On July 12 the House Financial Services Committee will hold the first in a series of hearings on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) practices. In anticipation of the hearing, and in response to the preliminary report attacking ESG by the Republican ESG Working Group, Green America submitted a letter for the record to Members of the Committee supporting ESG investing and shareholder proxy voting, backed by real data.