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Citibank – BPA – 2012
As You Sow engaged in dialogue with Citibank, pressing the company to switch to BPA-free receipt paper.
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Citibank – BPA – 2011
As You Sow engaged in dialogue with Citibank, pressing the company to switch to BPA-free receipt paper.
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Bank of America – BPA – 2012
As You Sow engaged in dialogue with Bank of America, pressing the company to switch to BPA-free receipt paper.
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Bank of America – BPA – 2011
As You Sow engaged in dialogue with Bank of America, pressing the company to switch to BPA-free receipt paper.
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Coca-Cola – BPA – 2010
Coca-Cola is the world’s largest beverage company, annually selling almost 570 billion servings of beverages. A significant part of Coca-Cola’s business includes selling beverages in aluminum cans. Our company has developed a valuable premium brand … MORE
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Coca-Cola – BPA – 2011
Coca-Cola is the world’s largest beverage company, selling 1.6 billion servings of beverages per day. A significant part of Coca-Cola’s business includes selling beverages in aluminum cans. Our company has developed a valuable premium brand … MORE
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Yum Brands – Bisphenol A (BPA) – 2011
Our business involves the sale of numerous products and the use of numerous materials, which may contain chemicals linked to cancer, mutation, birth defects, or other serious human health effects.
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Safeway – BPA – 2012
The value of Safeway’s brand is based on consumer trust. Safeway’s store brand canned goods use linings containing bisphenol A (BPA), a potentially hazardous chemical.
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More Coca-Cola Shareholders Want Info About BPA, Advocacy Group Says
LOS ANGELES TIMES – An increasing number of shareholders in the Coca‐Cola Co. would like the world’s largest beverage firm to report on how it’s addressing the risk of Bisphenol A in its beverage cans, … MORE
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Unease About BPA Bubbling Up Among Coke Shareholders
Press Coverage
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Shareholders Pressure Coca-Cola to Scrutinize BPA
TRIPLE PUNDIT – Yesterday over one‐quarter of Coca‐Cola shareholders voted for a resolution that requested the beverage giant to address consumers’ concerns over bisphenol A, or BPA. That is the good news. The bad news … MORE
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Why Coca-Cola Isn’t Ditching BPA
FAST COMPANY – BPA, an estrogen‐mimicking chemical found in food and drink can linings, adhesives, and many plastics, has been repeatedly linked to breast cancer, early puberty, infertility, and other health problems. The stuff is … MORE
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Taco Bell, Other Fast Food Chains Ditch BPA Laced Paper Receipts
TRIPLE PUNDIT – While the long term human health impacts of bisphenol A (BPA) are still not entirely understood, more medical research suggests that the chemical wreaks havoc with humans’ endocrine and nervous systems. Nevertheless, … MORE
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Major Food Companies Transition Away from Toxic BPA Receipt Paper
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Yum! Brands, Whole Foods Trash Paper Receipts Made with BPA
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Bisphenol A
Bisphenol A (BPA) is used to make polycarbonate plastic and epoxy resins. It is commonly found in polycarbonate plastic bottles, canned food linings, cash register receipt tape, and dental sealants. An increasing body of scientific evidence indicates that BPA is a potent neural, developmental, and reproductive toxicant, with the ability to impact fetal and infant development. Studies have linked exposure to extremely low doses of BPA to increased risk of breast and prostate cancer, impaired immune function, obesity, diabetes, early onset of puberty, hyperactivity, aneuploidy, and other disorders. MORE
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Coca-Cola – BPA – 2012
Shareholders request the Board of Directorsto publish a report by September 1, 2012,
at reasonable cost and excluding confidential information, updating investors on how
the company is responding to the public policy challenges associated with BPA, including
summarizing what the company is doing to maintain its position of leadership and public
trust on this issue, its role in adopting or encouraging development of alternatives to
BPA in can linings, and any material risks to the company’s market share or reputation in
staying the course with continued use of BPA. MORE
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US Shareholder Advocacy Targets BPA, Flame Retardants and Mercury
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Yum! Brands, Whole Foods Address Peoples’ Health, Discontinue Toxic BPA
SUSTAINABLE BRANDS.COM – May 17, 2011 – Yum! Brands (NYSE: YUM) (owner of KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell) and Whole Foods (Nasdaq: WFM) are discontinuing the use of cash register receipt paper made with … MORE
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Coca-Cola Says It Will Not Phase Out BPA
THE INDEPENDENT – April 28, 2011 – Coca‐Cola has rejected calls to eliminate a controversial hormone disrupter in its canned soft drinks despite facing mounting pressure from its shareholders.
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Shareholder Activists Pushing Coke to Rid Cans of BPA
FAIRWARNING – April 25, 2011 – Shareholder activists are resuming their campaign to pressure Coca‐Cola to stop using the controversial chemical BPA, or Bisphenol A, to coat the lining of its soft drinks cans.
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Coca-Cola Investors to Vote on Shareholder Resolution Addressing Toxic Chemical BPA in Can Linings
BEVNET – April 20, 2011 – On April 27th Coca-Cola shareholders will vote on a resolution at the company’s annual meeting in Atlanta about the use of bisphenol‐A (BPA) in beverage can linings.
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BPA on Corporate Policy Agenda in 2011
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US Shareholders Question Companies on Use of BPA
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TEDx: Plastic Is the New Smoking
THE HUFFINGTON POST – Nov. 16, 2010 – Think of the Gulf oil spill only a couple thousand miles longer. A loosely formed mass of plastic paraphernalia stretches from the beaches of Santa Monica, all … MORE
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Leading Companies Are Taking Proactive Approach to BPA
SOCIAL FUNDS – Oct. 29, 2010 – Report by Green Century Capital Management and As You Sow finds increased attention by food, beverage, and retail companies to bisphenol A in packaging.
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ConAgra, Heinz Are Tops In Banishing BPA
FORBES – Oct. 26, 2010 – Our government may not have done much to ban or regulate the use of BPA in our food packaging, but some companies are taking the ini
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Coca‐Cola, Del Monte, Kraft Score Failing Grades in Safe Packaging Report
FAST COMPANY – Oct. 21, 2010 – BPA, a toxic compound found in everything from water bottles to store receipts, has increasingly become a thorn in the side of companies that make canned foods and … MORE
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Companies Graded On Moves To Go BPA-Free
USA TODAY – Oct. 21, 2010 – The marketplace is responding faster than federal regulators to consumer concerns about BPA, an estrogen‐like chemical used to line most metal food and beverage cans, a new report … MORE
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Coke, Del Monte, Kraft, Wal-Mart, Get Failing Grades For Using BPA
ENVIRONMENTAL LEADER – Oct. 21, 2010 – Major brands including Hain Celestial, H.J. Heinz, ConAgra, and General Mills received an “A” grade for working to eliminate the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) in food can linings, … MORE
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Seeking Safer Packaging: Ranking Packaged Food Companies on BPA
This report by Green Century and As You Sow builds on the first edition of Seeking Safer Packaging, published in April 2009, which ranked food and beverage companies on their efforts to address BPA in their product packaging. In this edition, the number of companies analyzed has expanded to include major U.S. retail companies that sell private-label canned products. MORE
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First-time Environmental Resolutions Win Strong Shareowner Support
SOCIAL FUNDS – Apr. 28, 2010 – Resolutions addressing Bisphenol-A at Coca-Cola and coal ash at MDU Resources each gain more than 20% of shareowners’ votes.
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Nuns Vs. Bankers: The Coming Shareholder Proxy Battles
TIME – Apr. 21, 2010 – What did the nun say to the banker? Do a better job of disclosing your over-the-counter derivatives market risk. It’s not a joke.
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Coke Dismisses BPA Concerns
FINANCIAL ADVISOR – Apr. 21, 2010 – Bisphenol-A, commonly called BPA, is a chemical used in many plastics that in recent years has been found capable of leaching into liquids when used in liquid containers … MORE
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Coca-Cola, Del Monte, Kraft Score Failing Grades In Safe Packaging Report
FAST COMPANY – Apr. 21, 2010 – Bisphenol-A, commonly called BPA, is a chemical used in many plastics that in recent years has been found capable of leaching into liquids when used in liquid containers … MORE
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RELEASE: Shareholders Challenge Coca-Cola Over Bisphenol-A in Cans
AS YOU SOW RELEASE – April 20, 2010 – Shareholders will vote tomorrow on a proposal asking the company to disclose how it is responding to public concerns about the safety of Bisphenol-A (BPA), a … MORE
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Seeking Safer Packaging: Ranking Packaged Food Companies on BPA
Seeking Safer Packaging, published in April 2009, ranks food and beverage companies on their efforts to address BPA in their product packaging. Consumers, the media, and public officials alike are becoming increasingly concerned about bisphenol A (BPA), an endocrine-disrupting chemical used in hard clear plastic and can linings.
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