This week, Disney (NYSE: DIS) and Qualcomm (NYSE: QCOM) shareholders will vote on proposals asking the companies to report on how they are protecting employees from growing climate portfolio risk in their company retirement plans.
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Today, As You Sow announced that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has determined that shareholder representative As You Sow’s proposal calling for Pepsi Co to reduce its use of non-recyclable flexible plastic packaging, should remain on the Company’s proxy statement.
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Today, the As You Sow Board of Directors and staff welcome Michael Darnaud to our board of Directors.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has determined that shareholder representative As You Sow’s shareholder proposal with Goodyear Tire, which addresses microplastic pollution, should remain on the Company’s proxy.
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Today, the SEC released shareholder representative As You Sow’s response to Travelers’ “No Action” challenge to its climate related resolution.
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Wells Fargo recently announced a poorly reasoned decision to end its greenhouse gas reduction targets, setting the stage for the financing of high carbon companies unbounded by greenhouse gas limits or goals – an outcome likely to contribute significantly to climate harm.
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Today, shareholders of Deere & Co (NYSE:DE) sent a strong signal to the Board and management by voting nearly unanimously against a shareholder proposal from a conservative think-tank looking to undermine the company’s diversity and inclusion programs.
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Today, shareholder representative organization As You Sow announced that it has withdrawn Proposal 05 from the proxy statement of Deere & Co (NYSE: DE), which sought greater transparency and disclosure of the Company’s efforts to build a productive and meritocratic workforce.
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As You Sow and Corporate Knights today released the 12th cohort of the Carbon Clean200™, a global list of 200 publicly traded companies leading the global sustainable clean energy economy.
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A new analysis from shareholder representative As You Sow found a combined $2 billion in fossil fuel investments by faculty and staff at high profile universities, including Harvard, Princeton, and Northwestern.
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Today, As You Sow announced that First Solar Inc. (NYSE: FSLR) committed to exclude minerals mined from the deep seabed from its supply chain until scientific findings are sufficient to assess the environmental risks of this potentially devastating new mining process.
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Today, Plaintiffs Larry Lee and As You Sow reached a settlement with Amazon concluding a nearly decade-long lawsuit addressing the sale on Amazon.com of brightening and lightening skin creams containing mercury.
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Judge Reed O’Connor, a federal judge in Texas, ruled that American Airlines violated its fiduciary duty to retirement plan participants by failing to prevent Blackrock from engaging in investment actions to address long-term risk and value-creation.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ruled against Deere & Co’s “no-action” request to exclude a shareholder proposal filed by As You Sow on behalf of shareholder Amalgamated Bank, asking the company to address the effectiveness of the Company’s policies in creating a meritocratic workplace, especially in the face of Deere’s recent diversity policy rollbacks.
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On Friday, Palo Alto Networks’ (NYSE: PAN) reported that 12.2% of shareholders voted in support of a proposal asking the company to report on how it is protecting employees from growing climate portfolio risk.
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Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) shareholders will vote on a resolution calling on the company to address the risks associated with its deployment of advanced technologies, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), for the fossil fuel industry.
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Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) shareholders will cast their vote on a proposal asking the company to report on actions it is taking to protect employees’ retirement savings from the growing economic consequences of climate change.
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Today, as part of its Climate Finance Day event, with a live audience and livestream, the shareholder representative organization, As You Sow released a new report titled, Climate Inflation - How Extreme Weather is Driving Up the Price of Food.
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General Mills released shareholder voting results today from its 2024 annual general meeting. Shareholders strongly supported a proposal filed by shareholder representative As You Sow, calling on the company to disclose success in reducing pesticide use through regenerative agriculture practices which brings a range of benefits including soil carbon sequestration.
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As You Sow, a leading shareholder representative, in collaboration with investment advisor Carbon Collective and shareholder voting platform iconik, today announced a new program integrated into its 401(k) employer-sponsored retirement plan that enables every employee to direct fund managers how to vote proxies according to their preferences.
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