Independent shareholders supported the resolution at approximately 27.7%, a meaningful expression of investor concern at a company where management recommendations carry exceptional weight with long-tenured shareholders.
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Shareholders of The Travelers Companies will vote on a resolution asking the company to explain how its aggressive price increases and reduction of geographic coverage in response to growing climate-related damages will affect the sustainability of its homeowners insurance business.
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As You Sow today applauded California’s implementation of SB 54, the most ambitious Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) law for packaging in the United States.
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Investors are calling on Wells Fargo to provide a comprehensive assessment and disclosure of climate-related litigation risks to assess it’s risk management strategy, especially as benchmarked against other banks that have climate goals and transition plans in place.
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New open-access platform at ProxyOpenExchange.org (POE) enables all shareholder proponents to publish exempt solicitations in the form of proxy memos related to their shareholder proposals.
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Upcoming Bayer Supreme Court case comes as growing body of scientific research links glyphosate to cancer and other chronic diseases, and as new evidence shows that cancer rates are rising among young people across the U.S. Corn Belt.
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Proxy Preview 2026, a comprehensive annual review of environmental, social, and sustainable governance (ESG) shareholder proposals was released by As You Sow and Proxy Impact.
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A shareholder resolution filed by shareholder representative As You Sow calls on Adobe to assess and disclose how its 401(k) plan investments in high-carbon companies threatens employees’ life savings, particularly younger employees’ whose retirement dates are more than a decade out.
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As You Sow submitted a formal comment letter to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission urging the agency to refrain from eliminating or materially weakening Regulation S-K.
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The As You Sow Board of Directors and staff welcome two new members to our Board of Directors: Rehana Nathoo, Founder and CEO of Spectrum Impact, and Stefan Kürbis, a sustainability executive with extensive corporate ESG leadership experience.
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Two landmark jury verdicts this week against Meta Platforms confirmed what shareholder advocates and impacted users have warned for nearly a decade: the company’s failure to address harmful content and platform design risks has created profound legal, financial, and societal consequences.
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As You Sow released its updated Pesticides in the Pantry scorecard, revealing that major food manufacturers have regressed on pesticide reduction practices and disclosure.
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Lawsuit Seeks to Block Change by SEC that Encourages Companies to Exclude Shareholder Proposals from Company Proxy Materials
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As You Sow, the nation’s leading shareholder representative, today filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against global insurance giant Chubb Limited, challenging the company’s decision to exclude a shareholder proposal from its 2026 proxy materials.
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As You Sow and Corporate Knights today released the 13th edition of the Carbon Clean 200™, also known as the Clean 200™, a global list of 200 publicly traded companies leading the sustainable economy through clean energy, electrification, efficiency, and enabling technologies.
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The SEC’s recent guidance reversing its long-standing position allowing Notices of Exempt Solicitation for smaller shareholders represents a significant setback for shareholder democracy and informed capital markets.
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This week, Sunrun Inc., the nation's largest residential solar and storage company, was formally added to the growing number of businesses calling for a moratorium on deep seabed mining. The commitment comes after productive engagement between shareholder representative As You Sow and Sunrun on the environmental risks posed by this emerging industry.
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As You Sow today warned that new climate data by five major scientific organizations confirmed 2025 as marking a decisive turning point pushing the global three-year average temperature above 1.5°C for the first time. Warming temperatures and related climate change continues to have a negative and growing impact on the economy.
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A prominent scientific journal recently retracted a landmark study claiming that glyphosate, the active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup, is safe for human health. There remains substantial research and evidence linking glyphosate to cancer exists across a range of studies.
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In resolutions filed with Travelers and Chubb, As You Sow asks insurers to explain if and how it can maintain a viable homeowners insurance business as catastrophic climate-related weather events increase payouts.
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