Getting some good news for a change, Johnson & Johnson ranks fourth among all companies in Newsweek's annual Green Rankings, ahead of other pharmaceuticals that made the top 100, including: Baxter, BMS, Allergan, Pfizer, Abbott, Lilly, Merck, and Hospira.
Reading an article online today from the Boston Herald on how AstraZeneca is outfitting its new Waltham, Mass. R&D center with the latest and greatest green bells and whistles . . . it's good to see, but hardly surprising.
Newsweek has just released its list of the 500 greenest companies, including sector breakdowns. Here are the top pharma companies, headed up by J&J (number 3 overall) and Bristol-Myers Squibb.