Today, As You Sow released its Waste and Opportunity 2020: Searching for Corporate Leadership report analyzing the actions, or inactions, of 50 of the largest U.S. consumer-facing companies to reduce plastic pollution.
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As You Sow is devastated by the police brutality that cut short George Floyd’s life, and the systemic racism in our society that led to it. George Floyd’s murder is one more in a long list of violent acts and brutality against Black Americans that exposes deep, pervasive, and toxic racism.
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Today, at the annual meetings of two fossil fuel majors, 46% of investors voted to support a shareholder resolution at Chevron and 25% at Exxon, according to preliminary results announced at the meeting.
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Today at Southern Company’s annual general meeting, management announced a new climate target to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. This improves upon its previously vague target of “low to no emissions” by 2050.
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At the BlackRock annual general meeting today, shareholders asked the world’s largest asset manager for a plan on how they are planning to implement the Business Roundtable’s “New Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation.”
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Shareholder’s today sent a strong message of concern to JPMorgan Chase about its outsize support of fossil fuels in the face of catastrophic climate risk.
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Fifty-four percent of investors voted to pass a shareholder resolution at the Phillips 66’s annual meeting this week asking the company to report on the public health risks of expanding petrochemical operations in areas increasingly prone to climate change-induced storms, flooding, and sea level rise.
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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.
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Following 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.
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The 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.
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For 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.
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Proxy 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.
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The 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.
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The 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.
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Last 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.
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Shareholder 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.
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In 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.
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Following 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.
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JPMorgan 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.
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