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Apple announced on Monday that none of the company's future products would be submitted to the EPEAT. This essentially stated that Apple would be abandoning their environmentalist policies. After they received a fair amount of grief regarding the issue, Apple's Vice President of Hardware Engineering Bob Mansfield released an official statement today that Apple products would continue to be included the EPEAT.

Two days ago we got word that Apple was dropping the eco-friendly EPEAT certification from all its products. The move was unusual for Apple, which has spent several years trying to green-up its act. Now some consequences of that decision are coming, as the city of San Francisco says that it won't buy any more Apple products. Meanwhile, Apple says its as green as ever.

More and more, you hear about companies that are making an effort to "go green." Apple, however, is bucking the trend. They went green, but apparently it wasn't working out for them because they aren't going to be doing it anymore. By withdrawing all of their future products from EPEAT registration, Apple is positioning itself to abandon green standards that stress qualities like recyclability and ease of repair by ceasing to have any of its devices certified.