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California Attorney General Rob Bonta is pushing for a change in Federal Trade Commission regulations that would require all U.S. companies to abide by California standards that govern when a company can advertise itself as “green.”<\/p>\n

In a letter last week, Bonta and 15 other blue state AGs called on to FTC Chairwoman Lina Khan to adjust the agency’s Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims, or “Green Guides<\/a>.” Bonta said making it harder for companies to call themselves “green” is a step that’s needed to “bolster consumer protection laws\u00a0against advertising that overstates environmental benefits,” or “greenwashing<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Bonta argued the FTC should follow California\u2019s model as a “leader in reducing waste, enacting environmental laws with the highest standards, and protecting and preserving our precious natural resources.”<\/p>\n

“FTC\u2019s Green Guides\u00a0must be updated and strengthened to better\u00a0ensure individuals and businesses can base their consumer decisions on accurate information,”\u00a0Bonta said in a statement.<\/p>\n

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“We are urging the federal government to go even further in developing strong standards to protect people from misleading information and to establish a stringent baseline for environmental marketing claims,” he said.<\/p>\n

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Bonta says he wants to “expand the scope of the Green Guides to consider how the standards for each environmental marketing claim could be clarified and strengthened to better ensure they are supported by\u00a0real\u00a0environmental benefits.”<\/p>\n

But Bonta\u2019s action was criticized by a Republican counterpart who says the request is out-of-bounds for attorneys general.<\/p>\n

“Attorneys general must\u00a0ensure that unelected\u00a0federal bureaucrats can\u2019t just issue whatever rule they\u00a0want\u00a0in order to further their\u00a0radical climate agenda, not encourage them,” Republican AG Andrew Bailey of Missouri told Fox News Digital in a statement.<\/p>\n

The AG’s wrote that, “the stated purpose of the Green Guides is to \u2018help marketers avoid deceptive environmental claims under Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act.\u2019”<\/p>\n

“The Guides have come to play an important role in establishing the bounds of such claims,” they said.<\/p>\n

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“Indeed, as our States endeavor to address critical environmental issues \u2014 climate change, the pollution of our air and water, emerging contaminants, and solid waste disposal, among so many others \u2014 the value of baseline standards for evaluating whether environmental marketing or promotional claims are deceptive and thus potentially unlawful under consumer protection laws cannot be overstated,” they wrote. “Our efforts are wholly undermined by such unscrupulous environmental marketing.”<\/p>\n

For example, the states are asking that the FTC require that if businesses that want to make a renewable energy claim, it should be “underwritten by actual environmental benefit,\u00a0wherein\u00a0marketers who make renewable energy claims must\u00a0actually\u00a0procure and use renewable energy.”<\/p>\n

Among other things, the AG’s also want the FTC to change the definition of “compostable” to incorporate both scientific standards and the known practical limitations of composting at scale.<\/p>\n

“FTC should make explicit that \u2018recyclable\u2019 means what the FTC has intended it to mean and what consumers understand it to mean: that\u00a0when the consumer properly disposes of a “recyclable” item, it is actually recycled as a matter of course,” Bonta said.<\/p>\n

Bailey said that such changes would not only be additional burden to companies, it would also unconstitutionally bypass Congress.<\/p>\n

The FTC did not immediately return Fox News Digital’s request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/dems-demand-federal-rule-change-forcing-companies-follow-californias-green-marketing-rules <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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