Walmart spews a huge amount of climate pollution with its shipping, but doesn’t report any of it

Grist
By Stacy MitchellJun 2, 2015, 4:49 pm80 pts
At Walmart’s annual meeting on Friday, shareholders will vote on a measure that would force the company to reckon with one of the biggest — and best hidden — sources of climate pollution in its vast global operations: shipping. No company moves as much stuff across the world’s oceans as Walmart does.…

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