How can companies that produce products that are polluting the environment have a strong reputation for social responsibility?

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McDonald's is blamed for making people fat, exploiting workers, treating animals cruelly, polluting the environment and simply for being American.

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Wal-Mart has taken heat for pressuring its employees to work unpaid overtime, offering meager health benefits, damaging small businesses, polluting the environment, and even for being philanthropically stingy.

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Europe's Emissions Trading System, launched in 2008, was intended to protect the environment by raising the cost of polluting and encouraging businesses to invest in cleaner technologies.

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Pipelines and gas wells will inevitably leak or rupture, risking lives and fouling the environment where people live and further polluting the air we breathe and the water we drink.

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Europe's so-called Emissions Trading System, first launched in 2008, was designed to raise the cost of polluting and discourage the production of greenhouse gases to protect the environment.

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"If you care about the environment, if it bothers you that you are polluting everybody's air, if it bothers you that you are sending lots of money out of the country, " he said, "then it's worth it to you to spend 20 minutes" recharging.

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