GM Accused Of Greenwashing By Mighty Earth Organization
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Back in January 2021, GM released an ambitious plan to eliminate tailpipe emissions from its new light-duty vehicle lineup by the 2035 calendar year, and to become fully carbon neutral by 2040. However, several environmental and social justice organizations are claiming that General Motors’ plan is all smoke and mirrors, and that the Detroit-based automaker isn’t doing enough to live up to its own ambitions.
Lead by global advocacy group Mighty Earth, 13 environmentally minded organizations banded together to draft a letter to The General that demands it to decarbonize its material supply and cease polluting local communities.
“There is no way that GM can live up to its carbon-neutral commitments without taking meaningful action to decarbonize its material supply chain starting with steel and aluminum,” Mighty Earth Senior Director Matthew Groch said in a prepared statement. “From the local pollution caused by Cleveland Cliffs to the forced Uyghur labor in China to desecrating the ancestral lands of the People of Red Mountain, every place that GM’s material supply chain touches, the people and the planet suffer.”
It’s worth noting that the letter specifically mentions Cleveland Cliffs, which was awarded supplier of the year by GM for six consecutive years. This is notable because the supplier paid $3 million in fines in 2022 for spilling cyanide and ammonia into Lake Michigan.
“For over one hundred years GM has been a part of Michigan. Unfortunately, this has meant it is the people of Michigan who feel the pain of layoffs and environmental degradation caused by GM. If GM wants ‘everybody in’ on the company’s plan to go carbon neutral, let’s start by protecting Michigan’s environment and not rewarding serial polluters like Cleveland Cliffs,” Michigan United Environmental Justice Director Em Perry was quoted as saying.
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WOW! This is prEtty intEnse stuff. I mEan who knEw that GM is dEstroying Michigan?! If only thEsE sick disgusting businEssEs nEvEr camE into ExistEnce, how pErfEct thE world would still bE…
WElp, thErE is always tomorrow…
The time gm destroyed Michigan cities is when they closed plants in places like Flint, Detroit and Pontiac. I am sure the people in those cities would be happy to put up with the “environmental degradation” to have some of those plants back.
It’s time to say NO to these environmental kooks!
One way is to get the Democrate Administration out of the W.H.
Gotta agree there!
Some should tell these fools to stop smoking so much weed, after all every time they light up its polluting the earth.
I had to delve into this further. Mighty Earth is an American group with a veteran political activist as CEO. They employ a strategy that they call “perfect storm”, which targets finances and supply lines. For example, they dislike the livestock industry, so they attack soy production, which is used to feed livestock. Now in their attacks on GM they are targeting steel and aluminum production. The group has a number of demands for GM to fulfil. Among them are as follows:
– Pause investment in the Thacker Pass Mine to conduct due diligence on their Indigenous Rights risk exposure in the project. Require suppliers and partners to implement FPIC [Free, prior and informed consent] policies in accordance with UNDRIP [United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples].
– Commit to ending sourcing from any steel or aluminum supplier connected to human rights violations or the exploitation of Indigenous lands or people.
– Adopt specific annual targets for purchases of carbon-free aluminum, reaching zero-carbon aluminum emissions by 2030.
– Commit to transition to using 50% low-carbon steel by 2030.
– Join global initiatives supporting value chain emission reductions, including ResponsibleSteel, SteelZero, and the Aluminum Stewardship Initiative.
The latest letter adds more demands:
– Adopt specific annual targets for purchases of carbon-free aluminum, reaching zero-carbon aluminum emissions by 2027.
– Develop a public plan to assess human rights risks regularly, including at the bauxite mining, alumina refining, and smelting level.
– Publicly disclose information regarding its steel and aluminum supply chains, including mines, refineries, and smelters.
– Commit to supporting manufacturers with strong labor standards to help grow domestic manufacturing of clean technology parts and materials.
– Commit to an equitable transition to electric vehicle (EV) production for Michigan workers including the reshoring of EV manufacturing jobs.
That’s quite the list.
Let me guess, their main donors come from china, Moscow and saudi Arabia, as well as other countries that want to ruin our economy.
Political activism is almost always pie-in-the-sky nonsense. Want, want, want….but who cares about the consequences, as long as they get what they want….yet they’re never satisfied.
Additionally, with that lack of satisfaction, the list of demands grows longer and crazier.
Didnt used to be, just since WW2 when the soviets realized it was their greatest weapon against us. Before that movements were almost always attempts at stiring up conversation. Examples? The great awakening, common sense and manifest destiny. Even the temperance movement, which arguably had the most radical list of demands in our nations political history never had any threats or violence, and ironically succeded. These bone heads would do well to learn that, but they wont because if they engaged in an honest conversation, they would loose their followers
I’m sure the founding fathers just wanted to stir up a conversation with King George. Idi0t.
Meanwhile, yesterday we in the Northeast were notified to limit our use of electricity due to high demand, by our provider National Grid.
If we had an honest Justice Dept. and FBI I think a lot of this nonsense would stop, but they are just as corrupt as the politicians.
We’re supposeed to be a Democracy. Who ARE they and when and where did ANY of these “environmental people” stand for Election ?
Where are the 20 EVs that GM ‘Mary’ said would be available in 2023?
Does she ever say anything truthful?
Electric cars are a joke. There is no way they can supply enough electric to make it work. They think windmills and solar panels will do it. Nonsense. And the government is using threats and our tax dollars to get the manufacturers to make electric vehicles. They won’s allow new nuclear power plants to be built which would help. I have a 2021 Duramax and there is absolutely no smell at all coming from the exhaust. Leave it the he!! alone!
Why does mighty earth get any press, who are they to be dictating to anyone. GM should just shut up and build vehicles.
Go talk to China, India, and Russia. GM and America are not the problem. The US is very clean and environmentally friendly compared to 50 years ago when I was a teenager. Young people today think it’s terrible here because they are being lied to by the enviro-nuts. Go pick on someone else.
Good thing you’re generation is on the way out. We won’t have to listen to that crap much longer.
Echo chamber Charlie…
Oh yea. Your going to love the country your ilk is trying to build.