Shareholder representative As You Sow recently filed shareholder proposals at three of the largest U.S. gas and electric utilities — Dominion, Sempra Energy, and Southern Company — asking the companies to disclose the potential that their planned and existing natural gas infrastructure could become stranded as the energy market moves inexorably toward cleaner energy resources.

The American Chemistry Council and Plastics Industry Association announced Thursday a new program to help manage and prevent the accidental release of plastic pellets into the environment.

Investors are gravely concerned over Facebook’s governance, which has allowed Russian bots to influence the 2016 U.S. elections, Myanmar military personnel to incite genocide, 45 million images of child pornography and torture to be released on the web, and hate speech, anti-immigrant violence, and purchasing of weapons to proliferate. Even Facebook’s employees are calling for change.

Chevron announced Tuesday it expects to write down the value of its assets between $10 billion and $11 billion this quarter.

A New York judge today ruled that ExxonMobil was not guilty of misleading investors when it stated to investors that it used one cost of carbon in approving oil and gas projects, while using different and lower costs.

A coalition of investors — Walden Asset Management, Presbyterian Church USA, and First Affirmative Financial Network — led by shareholder advocate As You Sow recently filed climate-focused resolutions with a large segment of the U.S. banking industry, including JPMorgan Chase & Co, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley. 

Amazon has taken an important step today by removing 14 skin-whitening products that contain toxic levels of mercury from its retail platform, thanks to a sustained pressure campaign from Minnesota public-health and environmental groups BeautyWell Project and Sierra Club.

Today, Carbon Tracker released its Balancing the Budget report finding that companies cannot be considered “Paris-compliant” if they are sanctioning assets that would take the world past Paris limits.