Insider Podcast

Protecting health and safety: moving toxic chemicals out of the shopping cart

Featuring:
Gwen Ruta, Vice President, Programs
Thomas Murray, Vice President, Corporate Partnerships Program
Sarah Vogel, Director, EDF Health Program

Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and our partners in the Safer Chemicals Healthy Families coalition are leading an initiative to reform the nation’s chemical safety law. Most of the 80,000 chemicals used in everyday products in the U.S. have never been tested.

Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, is poised to announce ambitious goals developed in consultation with EDF to get chemicals of concern out of products on its shelves.

Hear about how our work with Walmart and other leading retailers is helping increase pressure for national action.

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EDF Partners with Business for an “Efficient” Climate Solution

Featuring:

David Festa, Vice President, West Coast and Land, Water, Wildlife
Gwen Ruta, Vice President – Corporate Partnerships
Andrew Hutson, Project Manager – Corporate Partnerships

Energy efficiency is often called the lowest-hanging fruit of climate change solutions: it can be achieved now, save consumers and companies money, and yield big environmental gains: an estimated 23% greenhouse gas reduction in the next ten years.

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Conference Call: Wegmans Adopts New Standards for Buying Farmed Shrimp

Wegmans Food Markets, one of the country’s most innovative food retailers, and Environmental Defense, a leading national environmental advocacy organization, has unveiled a first-of-its-kind purchasing policy for farmed shrimp.

The policy, which includes comprehensive and rigorous health and environmental standards, enables retailers and producers to address health and environmental concerns in a measurable and significant way. The policy will set a new bar for the seafood industry and U.S. retailers.

Featuring:

  • Jeanne Colleluori, Communications Specialist, Wegmans Food Markets Inc.
  • Gwen Ruta, Director of Corporate Partnerships, Environmental Defense
  • Carl Salamone, Vice President of Seafood, Wegmans Food Markets Inc.
  • Becky Goldburg, Senior Scientist, Oceans Program, Environmental Defense

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Gwen Ruta talks “corporate green revolution” on Bloomberg Radio

Our director of corporate partnerships, Gwen Ruta, talks with Bloomberg Radio about how large companies like Delta Airlines and ConocoPhillips are taking serious steps to address environmental issues.

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Gwen Ruta talks green business on CNN

CNN’s Ali Velshi and his guests – including Gwen Ruta, our director of corporate partnerships – examine how consumers and businesses are going green or doing their part to clean up the environment.

Here are the details on the one-hour program, “Going Green, Going Broke?”:

0 – 12 minutes: consumers, green building/LEED

12 – 17 minutes: Wal-Mart (Andy Ruben)

17 – 21 minutes: bottled water

21 – 22:20 minutes: what people in Atlanta think about going green

22 – 35 minutes: Gwen Ruta and Marc Gunther, Senior Writer Fortune Magazine on what businesses are doing

35 – 45: Living off the grid

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