Oil giants themselves have acknowledged that demand for their product will peak at some point as the worldwide transition to electrified transportation and renewable power generation continues.
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A $55 billion deal that saw the merger of two Texas-based oil and gas companies closed Thursday after a months-long bidding war.
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Mass shootings and the growing wave of socially responsible investing doesn't seem to be influencing behavior at one of the nation's largest mutual fund companies.
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Prosecutors in New York are accusing ExxonMobil of trying to discourage potential witnesses from testifying about whether the oil giant misled investors over the costs it may face from future climate regulations.
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US index funds vote against management at investee companies less frequently than their actively managed counterparts when it comes to shareholder proposals on contentious issues such as executive pay, research has found.
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Pay for many executives at nonprofit healthcare organizations in the United States has continued to soar even amid growing concern about medical costs and access to care.
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For the second year in a row, Oracle’s board has told investors that its trio of top execs — CEO Safra Catz, fellow CEO Mark Hurd, and CTO Larry Ellison — won’t be getting their all of their bonuses.
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Video game and film holding company Activision Blizzard has been dominating their industry for years now.
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A common debate in impact investing circles is over the best way to quantify, and/or qualify, the non-financial impact of an investment.
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New York (CNN Business)Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, two major sellers of plastic bottles, have made sweeping sustainability commitments. Now they are stepping away from a plastics lobbying group.
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In this interview, Motley Fool analysts Maria Gallagher and John Rotonti chat with Andrew Behar about sustainability, corporate responsibility, and ESG investing.
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THE STUDENTS AT Westmeade Elementary School worked hard on their dragon. And it paid off.
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Xcel Energy’s record on employee and public safety last year helped CEO Ben Fowke earn an annual cash-incentive bonus of $2.9 million.
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Abigail Disney isn't happy with the way her great uncle's media empire is run — but she never considered taking a role in the company to try and change it from within, she told the Financial Times.
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A bill that would require public companies to disclose the risks posed to their business by climate change passed a crucial committee vote in the House on Wednesday.
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Workforce data is poised to become the next battleground in investors’ fight for diversity disclosure as a group of investors representing $1.61 trillion in assets plans to send letters to 3,000 large global companies asking them to increase disclosures on workplace demographics and equity policies.
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Newton Abbot aims to be a plastic-free community.
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Greensboro, North Carolina-based Unifi Inc. has launched a new sustainable product that it says enables customers and consumers to play a role in solving the problem of ocean plastic.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Climate activists found companies more receptive to steps like cutting emissions or buying clean power this year, a new tally of shareholder resolutions shows, a trend proponents said undercuts the case for proxy rule changes sought by business groups.
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