Fol­low­ing in As­traZeneca’s car­bon-re­duced foot­steps, No­var­tis an­nounced new sus­tain­abil­i­ty tar­gets on Tues­day, which in­clude plans to neu­tral­ize sup­ply chain emis­sions in the next 10 years.

The Swiss phar­ma aims to be car­bon-neu­tral in its own op­er­a­tions by 2025, and across its sup­ply chain by 2030. To get there, it says it will re­duce ab­solute emis­sions by 35% across its val­ue chain, and fol­low a “dual strat­e­gy” to de­crease en­er­gy and fu­el con­sump­tion, im­prove ef­fi­cien­cy and adopt re­new­able en­er­gy sources. It au­dit­ed all ma­jor sites for po­ten­tial im­prove­ments.

“We have a long­stand­ing, com­pre­hen­sive en­er­gy and cli­mate pro­gram, which aims to im­prove en­er­gy ef­fi­cien­cy for all in­dus­tri­al and com­mer­cial op­er­a­tions and use re­new­able en­er­gy sources where avail­able and fea­si­ble,” the com­pa­ny stat­ed.

No­var­tis tout­ed what it’s al­ready do­ing to pre­serve the en­vi­ron­ment, in­clud­ing se­ques­ter­ing car­bon through forestry projects in Colom­bia, Mali, Chi­na and Ar­genti­na. It plant­ed 800 hectares of trees at the San­to Domin­go Es­tate in Ar­genti­na in 2007, then added 2,250 hectares in the fol­low­ing three years. By 2040, the com­pa­ny ex­pects to col­lect up to 2 mil­lion tons of car­bon diox­ide equiv­a­lents through the project. It al­so boast­ed of its Texas wind farm, and says it has sim­i­lar plans to achieve green en­er­gy in Eu­rope.

“Af­ter the suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion of a re­new­able pow­er pur­chase agree­ment in the US that achieved car­bon neu­tral­i­ty in that mar­ket for pro­cured elec­tric­i­ty we are now ac­tive­ly pur­su­ing a pan-Eu­ro­pean pow­er pur­chase agree­ment that will achieve the same, de­car­boniz­ing our pur­chased elec­tric­i­ty in one of our largest re­gions of op­er­a­tions and elim­i­nat­ing tran­si­tion risk as­so­ci­at­ed with car­bon pric­ing,” No­var­tis’ CDP cli­mate change in­for­ma­tion re­quest states.

The an­nounce­ment comes about 7 months af­ter UK-based As­traZeneca com­mit­ted to achiev­ing neg­a­tive car­bon emis­sions across its val­ue chain by 2030. The com­pa­ny will in­vest up to $1 bil­lion in its “Am­bi­tion Ze­ro Car­bon” strat­e­gy, which in­cludes us­ing re­new­able en­er­gy for pow­er and heat, and switch­ing to a 100% elec­tric ve­hi­cle fleet five years ahead of sched­ule.

“Cli­mate change is an ur­gent threat to pub­lic health, the en­vi­ron­ment and the sus­tain­abil­i­ty of the glob­al econ­o­my. Since 2015, we have re­duced our car­bon emis­sions from op­er­a­tions by al­most a third and our wa­ter con­sump­tion by al­most one fifth,” As­traZeneca CEO Pas­cal So­ri­ot said in a state­ment.

Amgen is the latest pharma company to appear on the radar of Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-OR), who is investigating the way pharma companies are using subsidiaries in low- or zero-tax countries to lower their tax bills.

Like its peers Merck, AbbVie and Bristol Myers Squibb, Wyden notes how Amgen uses its Puerto Rico operations to consistently pay tax rates that are substantially lower than the U.S. corporate tax rate of 21%, with an effective tax rate of 10.7% in 2020 and 12.1% in 2021.

After controversially spinning out its talc liabilities and filing for bankruptcy in an attempt to settle 38,000 lawsuits, Johnson & Johnson is now changing up the formula for its baby powder products.

J&J is beginning the transition to an all cornstarch-based baby powder portfolio, the pharma giant announced on Thursday — just months after a federal judge ruled in favor of its “Texas two-step” bankruptcy to settle allegations that its talc products contained asbestos and caused cancer. An appeals court has since agreed to revisit that case.