| GREENWASH | False or misleading display of eco-friendliness, especially by businesses, to conceal harmful activity |
| OPS | 56-Across activi ties, for short |
| RECYCLE | One of the three R's of eco-friendliness |
| ANALYTICS | ____ is the use of data by businesses to describe, predict, and improve their performance |
| RATES | Tax paid by businesses to a local authority (5) |
| MISREPRESENTATION | A false or misleading account |
| REDHERRING | False or misleading clue (3,7) |
| REUSED | Practiced eco friendliness |
| PROPAGANDA | Information, usually of a biased or misleading nature, to promote a view or political cause (10) |
| CARTEL | Group of businesses to transport the Spanish (6) |
| API | Tool allowing developers and businesses to access GPT-4 through OpenAI's interface.(abbrv) (3) |
| ALTERATIONS | Adjustments provided by businesses specializing in this puzzle's circled word |
| DELUSION | A mistaken or misleading opinion, idea or belief (8) |
| WEASEL | _ _ _ _ _ _ words, ones that make a statement evasive or misleading (6) |
| ENDOSCOPY | Invention of "Eco-Dyson" covering patent - initially it might feed tube through bottom? (9) |
| MOSS | Lawman expelling leader of eco-warriors that may hug trees? |
| EBOOKS | Recurrent award shows approval of eco-friendly publishing (1-5) |
| BEATLOGGERHEADS | Possible aim of eco-warriors in opposition? (2,2,11) |
| AGENDAS | Businesses to be transacted at board meetings (7) |
| PREMISES | Buildings occupied by businesses (8) |