Kohl’s leads retailers in EPA Green Power list

Washington, D.C. -- Kohl’s Corp. ranked second on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power Partnership’s latest ranking of the Top 50 partners using the most renewable electricity.



Kohl’s joined the top-ranking Intel as the only two partners using more than 1 billion kWh of green power. The retailer increased its green power purchase to more than 1.4 billion kWh of green power annually.



Other retailers in the top ten included Whole Foods Market, Staples, which Staples, which jumped from number 28 to eight in the ranks by more than doubling its renewable energy purchases, from 22% to 52% of its power use.