As You Sow today released its “Smoke & Mirrors: Healthcare Companies Are Addicted to Tobacco” report showing the majority of retirement funds, including those offered by healthcare companies, contain tobacco investments.
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General Electric (GE) announced today it is setting a goal to achieve carbon neutrality for its facilities and operational greenhouse emissions by 2030.
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Today, Procter & Gamble shareholders sent a resounding message with a 37% vote supporting an As You Sow shareholder resolution calling for diversity disclosure
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The Trump administration’s U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today voted to reduce shareholders’ right to raise material issues of concern to be voted on at corporate annual meetings.
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Southern Company released its Implementation and Action Towards Net Zero report on Monday, describing its plan to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.
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General Electric today announced an intent to exit the new build coal power market. The company, while gaining increasing positive attention for developments in wind turbines and other renewable technologies, has been criticized for continuing to promote high-carbon projects globally.
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Today, As You Sow announced that it has been unable to reach an agreement with Procter & Gamble, sending its shareholder resolution on diversity disclosure to a showdown at the Oct. 13 annual meeting.
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Today, the Steering Committee of Climate Action 100+ (CA100+), an initiative comprised of more than 450 global investors managing more than $40 trillion in assets under management, gave notice to high-emitting companies that they will soon be publicly evaluated on how they are (or are not) transitioning their business strategies and operations in alignment with the goals of the Paris Agreement and a net-zero emissions future.
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Waste Management Inc. has issued a “Report on Recycling” as the result of a dialogue earlier this year on boosting U.S. plastic recycling rates. China’s 2018 ban on plastic waste imports exposed the fragility of parts of the U.S. recycling collection and processing system.
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Hurricane Laura made landfall early Thursday near the Texas-Louisiana border in the heartland of American oil refining and petrochemical production.
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The Kroger Co. announced this week new sustainable packaging goals that fail to acknowledge the urgency of the plastic pollution crisis, and lag competitor commitments.
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The Trump administration is expected to announce this week a rule to eliminate the regulation of methane from oil and gas production, allowing rampant increases in this climate-forcing greenhouse gas. The announcement comes after years of opposition to the rollback from both investors and industry.
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As You Sow released today its seventh Invest Your Values mutual fund and ETF educational tool. Prison Free Funds is the latest issue area to join the free, online platform that enables individual and institutional investors to know what they own.
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Citi and Bank of America announced Wednesday they will join the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials, a global framework for financial institutions to measure and disclose the emissions from their lending and investment portfolios.
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This week, Walmart, Target, CVS Health, Kroger, and Walgreens announced a Beyond the Bag Initiative, a three-year project to “reinvent single-use plastic bags” by identifying design solutions for new systems to replace the function of the current retail plastic bag.
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Today, Morgan Stanley announced it will become the “first U.S.-based global bank to join the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF) and its Steering Committee as part of the firm’s commitment to measuring and disclosing its approach to climate change risk and opportunity.”
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Duke Energy and Dominion Energy, two of the nation’s largest utility companies, announced Sunday the cancelation of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, a 600-mile natural gas pipeline that would have crossed West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina, and under the Appalachian Trail.
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On Juneteenth, investors made it clear that diversity matters. The Nia Impact Capital shareholder resolution received a preliminary vote of 70% investor support at Fortinet general annual meeting, requesting the release of quantitative diversity data.
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