From environmental damage to fueling conflict, the mining industry has left a trail of tangled impacts around the world. Host Marco Werman speaks with Responsible Sourcing Network's founder Patricia Jurewicz.

Human RightsAsYouSowJanuary 31, 2019Marco Werman, mining

SCDuke Energy’s Massive Rate Hike Challenged

Remember that massive rate hike proposed last November by Charlotte, North Carolina-based Duke Energy? We do …

EnergyAsYouSowJanuary 31, 2019FITSNews, coal ash

KFC, Walmart Canada Latest to Commit to Plastic Use Reduction

Plastic is a hot topic in Davos this week and more big-name companies are stepping up commitments to reducing plastic waste -- playing catch-up to other industry leaders.

Waste, Circular EconomyAsYouSowJanuary 24, 2019Carmen Reinicke, Ocean Plastics

Plastics industry launches waste initiative

In what is being billed as the largest-ever effort of its kind, 28 companies have formed the Alliance to End Plastic Waste, which plans to invest up to $1.5 billion over the next five years on projects to keep plastic trash out of the ocean.

Waste, Circular EconomyAsYouSowJanuary 24, 2019Ocean Plastics, Alexander H. Tullo

Dow Chemical joins $1 billion effort to cut plastic waste in ocean and environment

MIDLAND, MICH — Dow Chemical Co. is forming a global alliance with 30 other companies to focus on reducing plastic waste that ends up in the oceans and the environment.

Waste, Circular EconomyAsYouSowJanuary 24, 2019Chris Ehrmann, plastic pellets

UPDATE: A decade after the crisis, the SEC still leaves executive compensation rules unwritten

Almost everyone got on board the reform train after the 2008 financial crisis. However, big business, and in particular the biggest banks, slammed the brakes on reforms that threatened to separate senior executives from their money that critics said incentivized excessive risk taking before the crisis.

CEO PayAsYouSowJanuary 21, 2019Francine McKenna

On to Greener Pastures: The Landscape of Impact Investing, Divestment Strategies, and How Investors Are Combatting Climate Change

Per the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), "[i]mpact investments are investments made with the intention to generate positive, measurable social and environmental impact alongside a financial return."

EnergyAsYouSowJanuary 21, 2019climate change, Carlton Fields, Joshua Gutter

How to Evaluate Socially Responsible Investing

FINDING SOCIALLY responsible investments is easier than ever before, but questions still remain around just what impact these investments are actually having.

Invest Your ValuesAsYouSowJanuary 21, 2019Coryanne Hicks, Gender Equality Funds

Blue Apron skirts standard-accounting rules to claim profitability

Meal-kit provider Blue Apron Holdings Inc.‘s shares rocketed 38% on Tuesday, after the company said it is confident it can achieve a version of profitability this year.

CEO PayAsYouSowJanuary 21, 2019Ciara Linnane, Francine McKenna, blue apron

A look at investing through the "gender lens"

The government shutdown, Brexit and tariffs — they're all affecting trade.

Invest Your ValuesAsYouSowJanuary 21, 2019Marketplace, Gender Equality Funds, Renata, David Brancaccio

Industry-led effort commits $1.5B to curb plastic pollution

With more plastics piling into rivers and oceans, several of the world's biggest plastic chemical manufacturers are joining together in an industry-led effort to curb plastic waste.

Waste, Circular EconomyAsYouSowJanuary 21, 2019Marissa Luck, plastic pellets

Environmentalists Say Tiny Plastic 'Nurdles' Threaten Earth's Oceans

As You Sow has filed resolutions with Chevron Corp., DowDupont Inc., Exxon Mobil Corp. and Phillips 66 asking them to disclose how many nurdles escape their production process each year, and how effectively they’re addressing the issue.

Waste, Circular EconomyAsYouSowJanuary 21, 2019Eric Roston, plastic pellets

There’s a Tiny Plastic Enemy Threatening the Planet’s Oceans

Environmentalists have identified another threat to the planet. It’s called a nurdle.

Waste, Circular EconomyAsYouSowJanuary 21, 2019Eric Roston, plastic pellets

Packaging challenges could leave bottled water companies all wet

Bottled water is America's most popular beverage, dethroning carbonated soft drinks in 2016. Sales have soared in recent years because of consumer worries about tap water quality and concerns about sugary drinks.

Waste, Circular EconomyAsYouSowJanuary 21, 2019Cathy Siegner, plastics, plastic solutions

Industry groups call for ditching of Prop 65 reprotox calculation amendments

A broad industry coalition has pushed back on proposed changes to how exposures to reproductive toxicants are calculated under Proposition 65. They claim the amendments would "place additional and unjustified burdens solely on the backs of businesses".

Environmental HealthAsYouSowJanuary 21, 2019Kelly Franklin, prop 65

Exxon urges EPA to maintain methane rules

WASHINGTON - Exxon Mobil is pressing the Environmental Protection Agency to maintain key elements of the Obama administration policy restricting methane emissions from oil and gas drilling.

EnergyAsYouSowJanuary 21, 2019climate change, exxon, James Osborne

Five oil majors face 2019 climate target pressure by investors

HOUSTON/LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. and Norwegian oil majors Chevron and Equinor (EQNR.OL) have become the latest target of activist investors moving to force five of the biggest oil companies to commit to fixed emissions targets and align with the Paris climate agreement.

EnergyAsYouSowJanuary 21, 2019Jennifer Hiller, Shadia Nasralla, climate change, Chevron

Uzbekistan Aims to End Forced Labor in Cotton Fields

In previous years, local health inspector Abdusamat Kurbanov would have earned high praise and fat kickbacks for forcing hundreds of workers to leave their day jobs and pick cotton in Uzbekistan’s sweltering cotton fields for weeks at a stretch.

RSNAsYouSowJanuary 21, 2019cotton, Thomas Grove

New Gender Lens Investing Tool Helps Drive Capital to Mutual Funds Supporting Gender Equality

As You Sow released its fifth Invest Your Values screening tool, Gender Equality Funds, in mid-November 2018. Gender Equality Funds is a free, online tool that enables individual and institutional investors to apply a gender lens to mutual fund and ETF investments. More at- https://genderequalityfunds.org

Invest Your ValuesAsYouSowJanuary 21, 2019Gender Equality Funds

Costco tightens standards for antibiotics use by meat producers

Costco, in the midst of developing its own poultry processing plant to go with an already substantial company-owned beef supply operation, has set out new standards and monitoring requirements for antibiotic use in animal agriculture, making it one of the largest food retailers to take on the issue.