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The Battle For Planet Earth There is no question that some "greenwashing" is going on in the corporate world. Bayemwerk, a B
The Battle For Planet Earth There is no question that some "greenwashing" is going on in the corporate world. Bayemwerk, a B
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The Battle For Planet Earth
There is no question that some "greenwashing" is going on in the corporate world. Bayemwerk, a Bavarian utility, began selling "Aqua Power" last year when Germany began to let customers choose their electricity supplier. Bayernwerk markets Aqua Power as 100 percent green, renewable, hydroelectric energy. But any customer who signs up gets power from the same mix of sources as before: hydro, gas, coal and nuclear. Nothing changes except some accounting, and there is no net benefit to the environment. There is a benefit, though, to Bayernwerk, which charges more for Aqua Power and has been swamped with orders for it.
Greenwashing takes many forms. "Companies often advertise themselves as environmentally friendly even though they might have some pretty horrible environmental records," says Jill Johnson of the group Earth Day. California’s PG&E, the utility that settled out of court after the real Erin Broekovich accused it of polluting groundwater, runs pro-environmental ads. But PG&E is due in court in November on charges of polluting wells in a second California town. "PG&E has a very good environmental track record," says spokesman Greg Pruett, citing recycling and waste reduction. Weyerhaeuser, the timber company, cuts old-growth trees in Canada but trumpets the 100 million tree seedlings it will plant this year.
Overall, the greening of corporate America is real and has not been as hard to achieve as some environmental activists imagined. That is especially true for greenhouse gases and climate change, the focus of Earth Day. " Now there is more recognition by companies that there may be an economic advantage to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases," says Paul Portney, president of the think tank Resources for the Future. More and more companies are changing the way they heat and light their buildings and design their factories to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as well as their energy bills. (Energy-efficiency upgrades can save a company roughly $ 1 per square foot of office or factory space every year.) The reductions often exceed those called for in the 1997 international agreement on greenhouse warming called Kyoto Treaty, whose goal of reducing greenhouse emissions 7 percent from their 2000 levels is deemed so threatening to the economy by many oil, coal and chemicals companies that the White House does not dare to submit it to the Senate for ratification.
The reductions on greenhouse gas emissions, called for in the Kyoto Treaty, turned out to be______.
选项
A、too dangerous for the U. S. economy
B、unrealistic for the present
C、good for oil, coal and chemical companies
D、not too difficult to achieve in the U.S.
答案
D
解析
本题考查事实细节。文中的最后一段开头提到:“美国公司的绿色行动是真实的,并且不像一些环保人士所预想的那么难以实现”,接着文中又提到:“温室气体的排放低于《京都条约》要求的排放量。”可见温室气体排放量的降低在美国并不难实现。所以正确答案应为[D]选项。
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