Environmentalists find an unlikely new hero: Wal-Mart
By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
Published: 25 October 2006
It sounds an unlikely scenario: a couple of prominent Hollywood liberals honouring Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer and much-criticised corporate bogeyman, for its contributions to the environment.
And yet that is what transpired on Monday. Lee Scott, Wal-Mart's chief executive, found himself fêted at a dinner reception at New York's Rockefeller Plaza courtesy of Bob and Harvey Weinstein, who called him "a great role model for those of us who care about the environment".
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