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‘Greenwashing’ Isn’t About Consumers

Corporate climate action has become an employee perk
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In February, Bank of America offered its employees a notable perk: If they had worked at the bank for at least three years, and made less than $250,000, then it would give them $4,000 to buy a new electric car. (Employees interested in merely leasing an EV could claim $2,000.) The move, attached to a company-wide round of salary increases, wasn’t the first time that the bank had made the offer; it had made , and again , although those incentives had also applied

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