Last June, As You Sow founded the Plastic Solutions Investor Alliance, an international coalition of investors engaging publicly traded consumer goods companies on plastic waste and pollution.
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An environmental group that wages shareholder resolution campaigns dropped a complaint against General Mills after the company acknowledged pesticides are a problem in food supplies and outlined steps to reduce their use.
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Every year, As You Sow – the leading US non-profit shareholder advocate – identifies the 100 most overpaid CEOs of the S&P 500 and analyses whether or not pension funds and financial managers have held companies accountable for excessive compensation.
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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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