“‘We are at the beginning of this AI boom,’ said Kelly Poole, climate and energy coordinator at As You Sow. "Investors see the opportunity in intervening early so that we can have conversations with companies about sustainably developing their AI infrastructure before we find ourselves further along when more infrastructure is built, where money has been spent, and it's harder to undo the environmental and social impacts.’” Read More →
Read More“The SEC’s proposal 'has tilted the field strongly in favor of shielding management from shareholder input … creating a byzantine and difficult process which favors shareholder votes going to support management,’ Danielle Fugere, president of shareholder advocate As You Sow, said in a statement.” Read More →
Read More“‘Investor protection is at the heart of the SEC’s mission and fundamental to maintaining orderly markets and facilitating capital formation,’ said Danielle Fugere, President & Chief Counsel of As You Sow.” Read More →
Read More“‘Shareholder proposals provide the core infrastructure for corporate oversight, governance, and knowledge,’ said Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow, in a release.” Read More →
Read More“‘It’s hard to understand the SEC’s rationale for proposing to shield companies from advisory shareholder input,’ said Danielle Fugere, president and chief counsel at As You Sow.” Read More →
Read More“‘Homogeneous leadership tends to share the same blind spots, miss the same risks, and reach for the same familiar answers, and over time, that shows up in financial results,’ said Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow.” Read More →
Read More"In announcing the litigation, Danielle Fugere, president and chief counsel of As You Sow, said: 'As You Sow requested these records more than two years ago because investors have a legitimate interest in understanding the linkage between workforce composition and financial performance.'” Read More →
Read More“‘EEO-1 workforce data has long served as the bare minimum for evaluating corporate performance in creating equitable and effective workplace hiring programs,” said Danielle Fugere, president and chief counsel of As You Sow, in a statement." Read More →
Read More“‘Workforce diversity is a material business issue that investors increasingly consider in their decision-making,’ said Andrew Behar, As You Sow’s CEO.
Without this information, said Danielle Fugere, president and chief counsel, ‘investors are flying blind.’" Read More →
Read More“‘The trend recently has been high-profile companies pulling back on their [plastic packaging] commitments at a time when we think they should be charging forward,’ says Conrad MacKerron, senior vice-president of shareholder advocacy group As You Sow, whose 2024 Plastic Promises Scorecard ranked 225 large companies on their plastic commitments and found only 22 of 147 with recyclability targets on track." Read More →
Read More"‘The company did not directly tell us that it would be abandoning its pesticide reduction commitments or disclosures. Rather, the company quietly removed this information and data from its website,’ Cailin Dendas, senior coordinator for environmental health at As You Sow, told Ingredients Network.” Read More →
Read More“‘By rescinding this rule, the S.E.C. is turning its back on the investors it exists to protect,’ Andrew Behar, the chief executive of As You Sow, an environmental advocacy group, said in a statement. “This action treats the material financial risk of climate change that harms every American as nothing more than fulfillment of a campaign promise to the fossil fuel industry.’” Read More →
Read More"‘It feels like a time where companies really need to step up, and we're seeing them turn their backs,’ said Cailin Dendas, Environmental Health Coordinator at As You Sow and lead author of the [Pesticides in the Pantry] report.” Read More →
Read More“‘These tech companies need to commit to ensuring that no new fossil fuels are built to meet the power demands of their data centers,’ [said Kelly Poole, climate and energy coordinator at As You Sow].” Read More →
Read More“‘‘Strong workplace cultures equal strong companies,’ [Meredith Benton, principal of Whistle Stop Capital and workplace equity consultant to As You Sow] told Berkshire Hathaway’s board. ‘This is an opportunity. We know that American companies broadly are struggling to manage workplace culture concerns efficiently and effectively….’” Read More →
Read More"Cailin Dendas, who leads the Environmental Health Program at As You Sow…said ADM defines regenerative agriculture as an outcome-based farming approach that protects and improves soil health, but the company does not require regenerative growers to reduce or eliminate pesticide use.” Read More →
Read More"‘If Unilever-McCormick decide to turn their backs (on sustainability), this could create significant risk for shareholders and the new entity,’ said Cailin Dendas, environmental health program senior coordinator at shareholder group As You Sow.” Read More →
Read More"Rachel Lowy, speaking on behalf of As You Sow, formally moved the shareholder proposal requesting that SkyWest commission an independent third party to assess whether the company’s policies and practices align with ‘internationally supported rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining.’” Read More →
Read More“‘‘Shareholders are capitalism’s early warning system,’ says Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow. ‘Investors warned Meta for years that its platform was harming children. Recent jury decisions suggest those warnings were ignored – raising the prospect of significant liabilities.’” Read More →
Read More“After As You Sow sought to file another shareholder resolution, Nike agreed to release metrics on recruitment and promotion rates for diverse employees by 2024.” Read More →
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