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Houston and Walmart must clean up their port pollution

April 5, 2022 — Cleaning up our ports isn’t just an environmental issue; it’s a matter of building a healthier America and world. It’s about time that Houston, Walmart, and CMA-CGM act to clean up our ports and protect our neighbors.

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Walmart’s Dirty Shipping Problem

March 23, 2022 — In advance of the upcoming Society of Environmental Journalists Conference, we are providing a backgrounder with Houston shipping facts and some information on how Walmart has contributed to port pollution nationwide and in the Houston area.

Port pollution

Shipping emissions

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Ship It Zero Campaign to Walmart: Protecting Oceans Requires Zero Emissions Shipping

February 22, 2022 — Walmart Senior Vice President for Sustainability Jane Ewing will be a keynote speaker at the 9th annual World Ocean Summit Virtual Week taking place from March 1–4, 2022. Climate advocates with the Ship It Zero campaign are calling on Walmart to stop ignoring its massive ocean and climate pollution problem, as the company touts its narrow focus on overfishing.

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Maersk to Test Electric Charging Stations for Ports, Reducing Emissions From Fossil-fueled Ocean Cargo Ships by 5 Million Tons a Year Overall

January 26, 2022 — The Ship it Zero coalition applauded Maersk’s announcement to move towards zero-emissions shipping and called on other major shipping companies, like CMA-CGM, MSc, Cosco, Evergreen, and Yang Ming to follow its lead and continue building on this horizon of hope for our shared future.

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Maersk Accelerates Ocean Shipping Climate Ambitions by Decade Aims to Halve Climate Emissions by 2030 and Achieve Net Zero Emissions by 2040

January 12, 2022 — Major shipping corporation Maersk has announced plans to achieve net zero climate emissions in its business by 2040, a decade earlier than the company’s initial climate commitment made just four years ago.

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IKEA

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Groundbreaking new research uncovers close ties between polluting cargo carriers, major U.S. retailers

November 29, 2021 — New research released by Ship It Zero coalition members takes an in-depth look at four major retail companies that import goods into the United States — Walmart, Target, Amazon, and IKEA — and maps their often-hidden relationships with the fossil-fueled cargo carriers they hire to transport their goods.

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Press Release

Walmart, Target Must Take Accountability for Spiking Port Pollution in Los Angeles, Long Beach

October 14, 2021 — The Ship It Zero Coalition calls on the Biden-Harris administration, Walmart, Target, Home Depot, Lowe’s and other retailers to share in detail with the public what actions they are taking to end air pollution from this surge in imports.

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Watch the world premiere: All Aboard Ship It Zero

September 30, 2021 — Ship It Zero has hit the big screen! We’re proud to premiere All Aboard Ship It Zero. Watch the video to understand the problem with dirty ocean shipping — and the solutions.

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IKEA

Maritime shipping industry

News|Energy Moniter

Campaigners call for retail shipping to commit to zero emissions by 2030

August 20, 2021 — The US retail sector should urgently begin its transition to zero-emissions shipping by 2030, says a report from Stand.earth and Pacific Environment.

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IKEA

Maritime shipping industry

News|Forbes

Retailers’ Dirty Secret: Emissions In Shipping Freight

August 9, 2021 — Retailers are touting their ambitious emissions targets. Yet just getting their products across the ocean creates more greenhouse-gas emissions than all 2 billion of America’s cars and truck combined. Retailers (and manufacturers) can expect to face increasing pressures to monitor and manage their maritime freight emissions.

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Maritime shipping industry

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Press Release

Major Retailers Linked to Polluting Shipping Practices that Harm Public Health and Climate

July 20, 2021 — Report is first to use previously inaccessible cargo and supply chain data, finds fifteen companies responsible for as much sulfur oxide, nitrous oxide, and particulate matter pollution as tens of millions of vehicles and the climate pollution equivalent to 1.5 million homes.

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Report

Preview of a press release from Pacific Environment titled

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New poll finds a majority of Americans would change where they shop to support cleaner ships

November 17, 2020 — 74 percent say they’d be more likely to shop at a company that used cleaner shipping practices.

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IKEA

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News|The New York Times

Natural Gas Won’t Decarbonize Shipping, But The Fuel Is Here To Stay

February 4, 2020 — Investments in LNG-powered ships are growing despite debate over the impact gas will have on the environment.

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IKEA