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CONSOL – Carbon Bubble – 2015

BE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request CONSOL to prepare a report, by September 2015, omitting proprietary information and prepared at reasonable cost, on the Company’s strategy to address the risk of stranded assets presented by global … MORE >

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CONSOL Energy – Carbon Bubble – 2014

Shareholders request CONSOL to prepare a report by September 2014, omitting proprietary information and prepared at reasonable cost, on the company’s goals and plans to address global concerns regarding fossil fuels and their contribution to … MORE >

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After Bubbles in Dotcoms and Housing, Here’s the Carbon Bubble

Press Coverage

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RELEASE: Investors Ask CONSOL Energy to Report the Risk that 2/3 of Its Coal Reserves May Become Unusable

As You Sow Press Release

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RELEASE: Investors Representing Over $1 Billion Ask CONSOL to Address Risks of Carbon Bubble

As You Sow Press Release

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Investors Register Support for Groundbreaking Motion on Unburnable Carbon at Coal Firm

RESPONSIBLE INVESTOR – Some of the leading US investors, including the Florida State Board of Administration (SBA), which runs the $128.8bn (€93.5bn) Florida Retirement System, have backed an innovative shareholder proposal on “stranded” fossil fuel … MORE >

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CONSOL – Climate Change – 2013

Shareholders request CONSOL to prepare a report on the company’s goals and plans to address global concerns regarding fossil fuels and their contribution to climate change, including analysis of long and short term financial and … MORE >

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CONSOL Energy

Consol Energy is an American energy company with interests in coal and natural gas production. It is the U.S.’s largest underground coal mining company. As You Sow has engaged with CONSOL Energy on issues related … MORE >

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Will the Next Bubble Be Made Out of Carbon?

THOMASNET – May 31, 2013 – Concerns about the impact of carbon emissions are beginning to bleed onto the balance sheets of energy companies, even in this country where strategic engagement on the issue has … MORE >

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Green Groups Renew Attack On Mining Companies, Citing IEA Study

CLIMATEWIRE – May 16, 2013 – Activist shareholders are asking one of the nation’s largest mining companies to disclose the risks it faces from the potential stranding of billions of short tons of coal in … MORE >

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Backlash over $6 Trillion Carbon Loss Begins as Investors Call for Action

NEW MODEL ADVISER – May 10, 2013 – A US energy firm is among the first to face a shareholder backlash over unburnable carbon.

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Shareholders File First-Ever ‘Carbon Bubble’ Resolutions

INSIDECLIMATE NEWS – March 7, 2013 – Two advocacy groups have come up with a new tactic to show how climate change—and laws to deal with it—could make investments in fossil fuel companies riskier and … MORE >

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Getting the Carbon Out

FINANCIAL ADVISOR – January 29, 2013 – Who are the Filthy 15? They are public companies in the coal utility and extraction business that groups criticize for damaging the environment and contributing heavily to climate … MORE >

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