Environmental Defense


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Environmental Defense

Address:257 Park Ave S
New York, NY 10010
Phone:212-505-2100
Fax:212-505-2375
Phone:800-505-0703
Web: www.environmentaldefense.org
Established: 1967. Description:Links science, economics, and law to create solutions to environmental problems. Goals include stabilizing the earth's climate, safeguarding the world's oceans, protecting human health, and defending and restoring biodiversity. Maintains regional offices throughout the United States. Members: 500,000. Dues: $25/year.
Publications: Solutions (bimonthly); free. Wide variety of other print and online materials.
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Wegmans Food Markets, Rochester, New York, USA, has teamed up with Environmental Defense, a political advocacy organization, on what is described as a first-of-its-kind purchasing policy for farmed ship at its 71 stores, based on comprehensive and strict environmental standards.
Wegmans adopts new rules for buying farmed shrimp
Wegmans Food Markets has teamed with Environmental Defense to develop a strict purchasing policy for farm-raised shrimp sold at its service counter.
Green shrimp policy
Wegmans Food Markets and Environmental Defense, a leading national environmental advocacy organization, announced a first-of-its-kind purchasing policy for farmed shrimp.
Wegmans Adopts New Sustainable Purchasing Policy for Farmed Shrimp
The only supplier so far that is in compliance with Wegmans' policy, which it created in collaboration with New York-based environmental advocacy group Environmental Defense, is Belize Aquaculture, Ltd..
Wegmans Unveils New Farmed Shrimp Standards
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Auto insurer Infinity Property and Casualty Corporation has announced it has joined the PHH GreenFleet program, developed by PHH Arval and non-profit organization Environmental Defense and designed to cut greenhouse gas emissions from vehicle fleets.
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FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp., has put four hybrid electric medium-duty trucks into service in the Denver metropolitan area.The FedEx Express hybrid, developed in cooperation with Environmental Defense and Eaton Corp., decreases soot by 96 percent and smog causing emissions by 65 percent; travels 57 percent farther on a gallon of fuel, reducing fuel costs by over a third; andoperates and performs like a conventional FedEx Express medium-duty vehicle
FedEx Express Adds Four Hybrid Trucks to Its Denver Delivery Fleet

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