Earlier this month President Obama visited a Bay Area Wal-Mart to praise
the world's largest and most anti-union retailer for its supposed
environmental responsibility. The fact is that Wal-Mart's maintenance of
diesel-fueled supply chains between its stores and wherever on the
planet wages are lowest and environmental restrictions are totally
absent make it a major ongoing contributor to runaway climate change.
The president's appearance therefore, was simply a hypocritical exercise
in greenwashing for Wal-Mart.
-- Bruce Dixon, "Always Low Wages, More Pollution: Why Barack & Michelle Obama Relentlessly Shill For Wal-Mart" (Black Agenda Report).