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Kroger-Renewable-Energy-Goals-2017
BE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request Kroger produce a report assessing the climate change risk reduction benefits of adopting quantitative, enterprise-wide targets for increasing its renewable energy sourcing. The report should be produced at reasonable cost … MORE
Investors Say Companies Disclosing More on Fracking
Bloomberg Briefs- December 15, 2016- Energy companies are growing more transparent about fracking activity, according to a new report, amid concerns from sustainable investors that the energy extraction method is causing water damage, seismic activity and methane … MORE
More company climate votes ahead, as Trump may loosen energy rules
Fox Business – November 25, 2016 – BOSTON – Activist shareholders plan a record number of resolutions focused on climate change at U.S. company annual meetings in 2017, even as President-elect Donald Trump looks set to … MORE
Pinnacle-West-Political-Expenditures-2017
RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Pinnacle West prepare a public report fully disclosing monetary and in-kind expenditures on political activities that cannot be deducted as an “ordinary and necessary” business expense under section 162(e) of the … MORE
Devon-ExecComp-2017
BE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Devon Energy issue a report that assesses, in light of global concerns about climate-change and the resultant pressures to transition to a low carbon economy, the benefits and risks … MORE
Exxon-Low-Carbon-Transition-2017
RESOLVED: Shareholders request Exxon issue a report (at reasonable cost, omitting proprietary information) summarizing strategic options or scenarios for aligning its business operations with a low carbon economy (such as the International Energy Agency’s 450 … MORE
Exxon-Methane-Leaks-2017
RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Exxon report annually to shareholders (at reasonable cost, omitting proprietary information) and using quantitative indicators, the company’s actions beyond regulatory requirements to minimize methane emissions, particularly leakage, from the company’s hydraulic fracturing … MORE
Southern-Methane-Emissions-2017
BE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Southern Company issue a report describing how it will reduce climate risk by controlling its methane emissions, including disclosing its current enterprise-wide methane emissions and the practices used by … MORE
Southern-Company-Carbon-Asset-2017
BE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Southern Company prepare a report disclosing the financial risks to the Company of stranded assets related to climate change and associated coal demand reductions. The report should omit proprietary … MORE
Goldman-Sachs-Indigenous-Rights-2017
BE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Goldman Sachs prepare a public report on the North Dakota Access Pipeline, describing its financing of companies involved in the pipeline, how or whether its Indigenous rights policy was … MORE
Chevron-Low-Carbon-2017
BE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Chevron issue a report (at reasonable cost, omitting proprietary information), assessing how it can respond to climate change and the resultant transition to a low carbon economy by evaluating … MORE
Xcel-Carbon-Asset-Risk-2017
BE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that XCEL prepare a report assessing the Company’s risk of stranded assets resulting from global climate change and related fossil fuel demand reductions, including a quantitative analysis of potential short … MORE
Whiting-Fracking-Policies-2017
BE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request the Board of Directors report to shareholders, using quantitative indicators, the results of company policies and practices, above and beyond regulatory requirements, to minimize the adverse environmental and community impacts … MORE
RELEASE: Fracking scorecard: Even with industry downturn, improvement seen in risk reporting, but failing marks still dominate
DISCLOSING THE FACTS RELEASE – December 14, 2016 – Fracking scorecard: Even with industry downturn, improvement seen in risk reporting, but failing marks still dominate. 7 Out of 10 Oil and Gas Companies Engaged in … MORE
Disclosing the Facts 2016: Transparency and Risk in Hydraulic Fracturing Operations
While the coal industry used its recent setbacks as an opportunity to shuck off environmental responsibilities, 20 of 28 oil and gas companies engaged in hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) actually improved their scores in an annual investor report card ranking the companies on how they report their policies to reduce risks from fracking operations. Even so, much work remains to be done, with seven out of 10 fracking companies still earning failing scores. MORE
Firstenergy-Carbon-Asset-2017
BE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that FirstEnergy prepare a report, at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information, disclosing its strategy for aligning business operations with the 2015 Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting global warming to … MORE
Morgan-Stanley-Indigenous-Rights-2017
RESOLVED Shareholders request that Morgan Stanley prepare a report, at reasonable expense and excluding proprietary or legally privileged information, assessing how its indigenous rights policy could be extended to the financing of companies involved in … MORE
Sembra-Methane-Emissions-2017
RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Sempra issue a report disclosing the Company’s enterprise-wide policies for assessing, monitoring, and reducing its methane emissions; describing the climate change risk its methane emissions creates for the Company; and discussing … MORE
Anadarko-Carbon-Risk-Assessment-2017
RESOLVED: Shareholders request that by 2018 Anadarko publish an analysis, at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information, of long term impacts to the Company’s oil and gas reserves and resources under a scenario in which … MORE
Hess-Carbon-Risk-Analysis-2017
RESOLVED: Shareholders request that by 2018 Hess publish an analysis, at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information, of long term impacts to the Company’s oil and gas reserves and resources under a scenario in which … MORE
Duke-Coal-Public-Health-2017
RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Duke Energy publish a report assessing the public health impacts of its coal use on rates of illness, mortality, and infant death, due to coal related air and water pollution in … MORE
Phillips66-Indigenous-Rights-2017
BE IT RESOLVED: Phillips 66 prepare a report to shareholders, at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information, that describes the due diligence process used to identify and address environmental and social risks, including Indigenous rights … MORE
Entergy-Distributed-Generation-2017
Resolved: With board oversight, shareholders request that Entergy prepare a report (at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information) describing how the Company could adapt its enterprise-wide business model to significantly increase deployment of distributed-scale non-carbon-emitting … MORE
Dominion-Methane-Emissions-2017
Shareholders request Dominion issue a report (by October 2017, at reasonable cost, omitting proprietary information) reviewing the Company’s policies, actions and plans to measure, monitor, mitigate, disclose, and set quantitative reduction targets for methane emissions … MORE
Occidental-Climate-Change-Assessment-2017
RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Occidental Petroleum Corporation (Occidental), with board oversight, produce an assessment of long-term portfolio impacts of plausible scenarios that address climate change, at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information. The assessment, produced … MORE
NRG-Carbon-Asset-Risk-2017
RESOLVED: As You Sow, on behalf of NRG shareholders, requests that NRG prepare a public report, within 12 months of the Annual Meeting, describing how it will address the risk of stranded assets and coal … MORE
Wells-Fargo-Indigenous-Rights-2017
BE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders ask Wells Fargo & Company (WFC) to develop and adopt a global policy regarding the rights of indigenous peoples (the “policy”) which includes respect for the free, prior and informed consent of … MORE
Marathon-Petroleum-DAPL-2017
BE IT RESOLVED: Marathon prepare a report to shareholders, at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information, that describes the due diligence process used to identify and address environmental and social risks, including Indigenous rights risk, … MORE
Ameren-Coal-2017
BE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that the Board prepare a complete report on the company’s efforts, above and beyond current compliance, to identify and reduce environmental and health hazards associated with past, present and future … MORE
WGL Holdings – Methane – 2017
As You Sow, on behalf of WGL shareholders, requests that the company develop a report quantifying the financial risk that methane leaks in its natural gas infrastructure pose to the Company and its investors. Shareholders … MORE
Fiduciary responsibility and climate change
Corporate Knights – A certain recent RFP from the New York City comptroller on behalf of the city’s pension funds could be the beginning of something big.
Emerson Electric – Climate Change – 2017
RESOLVED: Shareholders request Emerson Electric (Emerson) issue a sustainability report describing the company’s policies, performance, and improvement targets related to key environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks and opportunities. The report should be available on the … MORE
Emerson Electric – Greenhouse Gas Emissions – 2017
RESOLVED: Shareholders request Emerson Electric adopt time-bound, quantitative, company-wide goals for reducing total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, taking into account the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement, and issue a report at reasonable cost and … MORE
The Coal Industry Collapsed—Is Oil Next?
Co.EXIST — July 21, 2016 — Five years ago, if you had asked someone in the coal industry about the future, they would have predicted growth—and ignored a nonprofit report arguing that the industry was … MORE
Toyota tops list of greenest companies for clean energy revenue
edie.net — August 15, 2016 — Automotive giant Toyota has beaten Siemens, Schneider Electrics and Panasonic to the top spot of the first Carbon Clean 200 rankings, which lists the world’s largest publicly listed companies … MORE
Turning the Carbon Bubble Inside Out
EcoWatch — August 15, 2016 — Our global economy is undergoing the “Great Transition” from an energy system based on fossil fuels to one based on clean, renewable energy sources and technologies. So as longtime advocates for a … MORE
Toyota, Tesla and Vestas ranked among world’s top green companies
The Guardian — August 15, 2016 — Toyota, Tesla, Vestas, DONG Energy and Panasonic are among the top ranked companies in the first ever Carbon Clean 200 list, which claims the world’s greenest large companies are outperforming … MORE
RELEASE: Green Companies Outperform Dirty Energy Companies 3 To 1, Report Finds
As You Sow – AUGUST 15, 2016 – As You Sow and Corporate Knights today released the inaugural version of the Carbon Clean 200TM (Clean200TM), a list of 200 clean energy companies showing a simulated annualized … MORE
Clean 200™: Investing in a Clean Energy Future (2016)
Over the past year, a growing movement of investors representing more than $3.4tn in assets under management have divested some portion of their fossil fuel investments. But where to invest this capital? The Clean200 ranks the largest publicly listed companies by their total clean energy revenues, with a few added environmental, social, and governance screens to help ensure the companies are indeed building the infrastructure and services needed for what many have called the “Great Energy Transition” in a just and equitable way. Notably, this new report highlights the fact that clean energy investments greatly outperform stagnating fossil fuel stocks. MORE
One-Third Southern Company shareholders vote for more renewable energy
Atlanta Progressive News – May 28, 2016 — One-third of Southern Company shareholders voted for the Company to move more quickly from coal to renewable energy sources at a recent meeting of the Company’s shareholders.
