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As You Sow, the nation’s leading shareholder representative, today filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against global insurance giant Chubb Limited, challenging the company’s decision to exclude a shareholder proposal from its 2026 proxy materials.
As You Sow and Corporate Knights today released the 13th edition of the Carbon Clean 200™, also known as the Clean 200™, a global list of 200 publicly traded companies leading the sustainable economy through clean energy, electrification, efficiency, and enabling technologies.
The SEC’s recent guidance reversing its long-standing position allowing Notices of Exempt Solicitation for smaller shareholders represents a significant setback for shareholder democracy and informed capital markets.
This week, Sunrun Inc., the nation's largest residential solar and storage company, was formally added to the growing number of businesses calling for a moratorium on deep seabed mining. The commitment comes after productive engagement between shareholder representative As You Sow and Sunrun on the environmental risks posed by this emerging industry.
As You Sow today warned that new climate data by five major scientific organizations confirmed 2025 as marking a decisive turning point pushing the global three-year average temperature above 1.5°C for the first time. Warming temperatures and related climate change continues to have a negative and growing impact on the economy.
A prominent scientific journal recently retracted a landmark study claiming that glyphosate, the active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup, is safe for human health. There remains substantial research and evidence linking glyphosate to cancer exists across a range of studies.
“‘Communications on material issues central to informed investor decision making is the underpinning of our free market system,’ said Andy Behar, the chief executive of the prominent shareholder activist organization As You Sow.” Read More →
“‘In 2016, we created the Clean200 in response to investors who asked, ‘As we shift away from fossil fuels, what should we invest in?’ Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow and report co-author, said in a statement. ‘A decade later, the Clean200 continues to demonstrate that the global economy is increasingly driven by companies delivering solutions that reduce dependence on fossil fuels and resource-intensive systems.’” Read More →
“Ultimately, Behar said, limiting small investors’ options for holding corporations accountable removes incentives for those companies to constructively engage with advocates. ‘Companies generally sit down with us,’ he said, noting that As You Sow had more than 100 such engagements last year alone. ‘It’s all part of a process.’” Read More →
“The SEC ‘was founded in 1934 to provide communication between shareholders — to create trust between companies and their beneficial owners — and now they are no longer going to be helping shareholders,’ said Andy Behar, the CEO of As You Sow, in an interview.” Read More →
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