In June this year a coalition of companies, investors and NGOs including PepsiCo, Walmart and Starbucks itself signed a letter urging the certification body to enforce stricter standards.
The Vermont case was the first to go to trial.Under the federal Clean Air Act, individual states may not enforce stricter standards than those set by the federal government.
Big-name companies such as food and beverage multinational PepsiCo, retail giant Walmart and coffee chain Starbucks, as well as numerous investors and NGOs, signed a letter, released Monday, urging the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) to enforce stricter standards.
For decades, the Indian government set and enforced strict standards for the country's newspaper, film and television industries.
The pace of life inside was dictated by the charismatic leader Mohammed Yusuf, who set and enforced strict standards of religious practice.
But the site also nurtures and enforces strict standards of accountability for behavior in the real world.
HuffPost Pollster enforced stricter standards this cycle than in previous elections.
It was also before the USDA started, in the 1970s, enforcing stricter standards to protect people from eating tainted meet.
What is very encouraging is that we are not the only ones: the number of organizations establishing and enforcing stricter standards is rapidly increasing.
Moreover, violent children often come from broken homes or parents who can't enforce strict moral standards.
Another big win came last month when 16 industry leaders, including PepsiCo, Colgate-Palmolive and Starbucks, penned an open letter to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil to urge the organization to enforce stricter sustainability standards.
