Following engagement with As You Sow, Denny’s has updated its Animal Welfare statement to include a policy disallowing the use of medically important antibiotics in its chicken supply chain, effective March 1.
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A shareholder resolution filed at Atmos Energy Corporation by corporate responsibility group As You Sow received strong support from close to 35% of Atmos’ shareholders. The resolution asks Atmos to monitor and minimize its methane emissions.
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BP announced today that it will support a resolution from investors of the Climate Action 100+ initiative asking the company to broaden its corporate reporting to describe how its strategy is consistent with the goals of the Paris Agreement. The energy giant said the BP board has decided to support the proposed resolution, which will be put to shareholders at the company’s annual general meeting in May 2019.
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KFC, part of Yum! Brands Inc., made two announcements today. One, commitmenting to eliminating non-recoverable or non-reusable plastic packaging by 2025. KFC also announced that it has fulfilled its April 2017 pledge to end the use of medically important antibiotics in its U.S. chicken supply.
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As You Sow is challenging three of the world’s largest plastic resins manufacturers to disclose actions taken to prevent and remediate spills of pre-production plastic pellets into waterways during production or transport. Plastic pellets are estimated to be the second largest direct source of microplastic pollution to the ocean by weight.
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Shareholders As You Sow and Arjuna Capital have filed ground-breaking shareholder resolutions with Chevron Corporation asking it to align its operations with the Paris agreement and adopt greenhouse gas emission reduction targets to ensure progress in reducing the full range of its emissions.
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Today, McDonald’s became the first major fast food chain to establish a comprehensive policy to reduce the use of medically important antibiotics in its beef supply chain.
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Xcel took an important step Tuesday to act on the dire problem of climate change, announcing that it will reduce its carbon emissions 100% by 2050, with an interim target of 80% by 2030.
Read MoreShell took an important step today to act on the dire problem of climate change, announcing that it will begin implementing its long-term emissions reduction “ambition” by adopting a commitment to set three- to five-year, near-term Net Carbon Footprint targets.
Read MoreA group of 35 institutional investors representing nearly $41.2 billion in AUM sent a letter to Duke Energy Monday calling on the company to initiate an independent investigation to determine the extent of possible contamination from recent breaches of the company’s coal ash ponds during Hurricane Florence.
Read MoreAs You Sow issued a notice of intent to sue Amazon.com under California’s Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act, commonly referred to as Proposition 65.
The notice letter, sent Nov. 21, alleges that America’s biggest online retailer has failed to …
Read MoreShareholder advocacy organization As You Sow filed a resolution Wednesday requesting that Wells Fargo adopt a policy to reduce its climate change contribution by aligning its loans and investments with the Paris goals of maintaining global temperature increases below 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Read MoreShareholder advocacy group As You Sow testified Wednesday at the sole public hearing of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on its proposed rollback of the New Source Performance Standards regarding methane emissions from the oil and gas sector.
Read MoreAs You Sow released today its release its fifth Invest Your Values screening tool, Gender Equality Funds. 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.
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Following engagement with As You Sow and a strong shareholder vote earlier this year, food and beverage giant Mondelez International committed Tuesday to making all of its packaging recyclable by 2025.
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