Tyson Settles Greenwashing Lawsuit

Last year, we posted that the Environmental Working Group ("EWG") had filed a lawsuit against Tyson Foods in DC Superior Court, accusing the country's second-largest meat company of falsely claiming it will achieve net-zero by 2050 and misrepresenting its industrial beef products as "climate-smart." (JBS—the country's first-largest meat company—just settled a lawsuit over similar claims this month.)

Under the terms of the settlement, for the next five years, Tyson generally cannot make claims about:

• its "ambition, pledge, commitment, or ability" to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by a certain date;
• it "climate-smart" beef program or that its products will have lower greenhouse gas emissions than conventional beef; or