What ‘greenwashing’ means for climate change
Post Reports
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🗓️ 21 April 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Today on “Post Reports,” the Biden administration announces a plan to welcome Ukrainian refugees. Plus, just in time for Earth Day, our corporate accountability reporter helps you decipher what it means when a company claims to be “green.”
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The Biden administration announced plans Thursday to expedite the arrival of Ukrainian refugees, creating a new system that will allow citizens and organizations such as churches to sponsor them and warning that Ukrainians attempting to cross via Mexico will be denied entry starting next week. Maria Sacchetti reports.
Plus, it’s almost Earth Day, and corporations are eager to tout their environmental progress. Our corporate accountability reporter, Doug MacMillan, has some tips for how to decipher these promises, which sound good but could be “greenwashed.”
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| 0:00.0 | Along the U.S.-Mexico border, thousands of Ukrainian refugees have been gathering, hoping |
| 0:08.6 | to apply for asylum. |
| 0:10.8 | Our colleague, Kevin Seaf, spoke with one of those people, Valentina Shimon-Sirfska. |
| 0:15.8 | She was sitting on the grass just a few hundred feet away from the U.S. border. |
| 0:20.5 | When I sit here, the correspond asked me what for, I am sinful. |
| 0:27.4 | I am sinful for the possibility to fear my tears. |
| 0:31.7 | I couldn't cry in Ukraine. |
| 0:34.3 | All the world, I couldn't cry. |
| 0:37.0 | I must be strong. |
| 0:40.0 | I must help them. |
| 0:41.7 | I must help me. |
| 0:42.9 | I must help our men who are in the world. |
| 0:48.9 | And I'm crying all the time. |
| 0:59.3 | She fled Ukraine along with her daughter and grandchild, but her husband and son-in-law stayed |
| 1:05.3 | back in Ukraine to fight. |
| 1:09.7 | You know, these past weeks have seen a terrible human cost of Putin's ambition for conquest |
| 1:14.9 | and control. |
| 1:16.6 | It's been two-thirds of all Ukrainian children have been displaced in their home. |
| 1:23.0 | More than five million Ukrainians have fled their country. |
| 1:26.5 | It's an absolute outrage. |
| 1:29.5 | Today, the Biden administration announced a new plan for welcoming Ukrainian refugees. |
| 1:35.3 | We've already welcomed tens of thousands of Ukrainians to the United States. |
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