This week, As You Sow received historically high majority votes on shareholder resolutions filed with Fastenal (61 percent) and Genuine Parts (79 percent). Both resolutions asked the companies’ board of directors to issue a report to shareholders describing the policies, performance, and improvement targets related to material human capital risks and opportunities.
Read MoreFollowing engagement with As You Sow, Republic Services Inc. has committed to publish a report on how the company can improve efforts to increase plastics recovery and recycling to address environmental problems caused by plastic pollution.
Read MoreThe Trump administration today announced its final fuel economy rule, rolling back more stringent Obama-era standards. These standards were considered some of the most ambitious and impactful policies to curb climate change emissions from the transportation sector, the largest source of U.S. emissions.
Read MoreFor the second year in a row, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has allowed Exxon to reject shareholders’ request for clear reporting on whether and how it intends to reduce its total carbon footprint in alignment with the global Paris goal of net-zero emissions by 2050. In a separate ruling, the SEC also allowed Chevron to avoid the question of whether it intends to align with the Paris goal.
Read MoreProxy Preview 2020, released today by As You Sow, the Sustainable Investments Institute, and Proxy Impact, offers a comprehensive look at more than 400 shareholder resolutions filed on environmental, social, and sustainable governance (ESG) issues.
Read MoreThe 2020 report Banking on Climate Change released today demonstrates that banks are fueling catastrophic warming of the globe. Shareholders, whose portfolios are already being impacted by climate change, are greatly disappointed by these results.
Read MoreThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently held that JPMorgan Chase, the world’s largest funder of fossil fuels, must include a climate-related shareholder proposal on its proxy this year.
Read MoreLast week, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) allowed Sempra Energy and Dominion Energy to omit resolutions filed by shareholder representative As You Sow to address the growing potential for stranded natural gas assets at the utilities.
Read MoreShareholder advocacy group As You Sow and nonpartisan policy think-tank Energy Innovation today released Natural Gas: A Bridge to Climate Breakdown, a report addressing the opportunities presented by the clean energy transition and the risk of overreliance on natural gas for utilities.
Read MoreIn another win for the health of the world oceans, YUM! Brands, Inc., the world’s largest quick service restaurant company, with global brands including KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut, has agreed to end use of harmful expanded polystyrene foam packaging globally by 2022, following engagement with As You Sow.
Read MoreFollowing in-depth engagement by As You Sow and Trillium Asset Management, Waste Management, Inc. has committed to publishing a report that could help ease the recycling crisis that has developed in parts of the United States.
Read MoreJPMorgan Chase will reportedly announce today a number of policies to increase restrictions on global coal funding and to end direct project funding of Arctic oil and gas projects.
Read MoreAs You Sow today released its sixth annual The 100 Most Overpaid CEOs: Are Fund Managers Asleep at the Wheel? report, focusing on the nexus between overpaid CEOs of the S&P 500, and the failure of many pension and financial fund managers to hold companies accountable for excessive compensation.
Read MoreAs You Sow and Corporate Knights today released their sixth update of the Carbon Clean 200™, a list of the 200 publicly traded companies that are leading the way among their global peers to a clean energy future.
Read MoreFollowing engagement with As You Sow, a fourth major petrochemical manufacturer, Westlake Chemical, one of the largest producers of low-density polyethylene, has agreed to start reporting on spills of pre-production plastic pellets, or nurdles, manufactured in its production plants.
Read MoreExxonMobil filed a motion this week to exclude from its proxy a climate-related shareholder resolution asking whether and how the company intends to align its business model with the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement.
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