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A Different Kind of Climate Change
Historically, environmental and social shareholder proposals have failed to resonate with most investors. According to Proxy Monitor’s data from 2008 to 2010, the most likely resolutions to gain shareholder approval have related to relatively straightforward … MORE
Financial Risks of Investments in Coal
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As You Sow Reports on Investment Risks Associated with Coal
SOCIAL FUNDS – As shareowner support grows for resolutions addressing risks of reliance on coal and coal ash, a white paper details the decline of the industry’s profitability.
RELEASE: Financial Risks Continue to Mount for Coal‐Dependent Companies
As You Sow Press Release
RELEASE: ExxonMobil and Chevron Shareholders Pressure Companies to Come Clean on Fracking
As You Sow Press Release
RELEASE: Investors to Challenge ExxonMobil and Chevron to Disclose and Minimize Environmental & Community Impacts of Fracking
As You Sow Press Release
RELEASE: Investors to Challenge Ultra Petroleum on Hydraulic Fracturing at Shareholder Meeting – Tuesday May 22
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RELEASE: Shareholders Press Utilities to Reduce Financial Risks of Coal
As You Sow Press Release
RELEASE: As Duke Become Nation’s Largest Utility, Shareholders Raise Questions About Continued Reliance on Coal
As You Sow Press Release
RELEASE: Shareholders Challenge Ameren to Disclose Plan to Reduce Costs and Risks of Coal
As You Sow Press Release
RELEASE: SEC Overrules ExxonMobil’s Attempt to Block Shareholder Resolution on Fracking
As You Sow Press Release
RELEASE: Solar Energy Production Much Cleaner then Fossil Fuel, But Industry Can Still Improve, New Report Says
As You Sow Press Release
Corporate Political Spending the Big issue for Proxy Season
RESPONSIBLE INVESTOR – Companies’ spending on political contributions and lobbying has emerged as the big issue for shareholder resolutions in the forthcoming US proxy voting season, according to an authoritative preview from advocacy group As … MORE
Exxon Shareholder Vote On Fracking Gets SEC Nod
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Exxon’s Fracking Gag Makes Chesapeake Look Good
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Fracking at Top of Chevron, Exxon Meetings
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Chevron Hears Concerns About Gas Fracking At Annual Meeting
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Shareholder Resolution Filed With Duke Energy Expresses Growing Concern Over Coal
TRIPLE PUNDIT – Duke Energy will hold its annual meeting next week, and as is the case with other utilities, non profit advocacy groups will press companies for more information on coal risk exposure. The … MORE
Coal Industry Faces Increasing Financial Risks
TRIPLE PUNDIT – Many people now realize that coal is a dirty fossil fuel. However, coal‐generated power may be an increasingly poor investment, as an updated version of As You Sow’s 2011 report, Financial Risks of Investments in Coal, shows. One of the biggest risks to coal is its low‐priced competitor, natural gas. In 2011, 42 percent of U.S. power output came from coal, down from 52 percent in 2000, while natural gas accounted for 25 percent, up from 16 percent in 2000. From July 2011 to July 2012, the amount of power from coal decreased to 39 percent while natural gas increased to 34 percent.
As You Sow on Creating Greener Solar PV Panels
TRIPLE PUNDIT – Advocating solar PV manufacturers adopt a set of industry best practices, a new survey and report highlights the environmental benefits of using solar photovoltaic (PV) energy as compared to fossil fuels, while … MORE
How to Make Solar Even More Sustainable
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After Bubbles in Dotcoms and Housing, Here’s the Carbon Bubble
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RELEASE: Carbon Divestment Does Not Increase Portfolio Risk, New Report Shows
As You Sow Press Release
RELEASE: Investors Ask CONSOL Energy to Report the Risk that 2/3 of Its Coal Reserves May Become Unusable
As You Sow Press Release
RELEASE: Investors Representing Over $1 Billion Ask CONSOL to Address Risks of Carbon Bubble
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RELEASE: Shareholders Push Fracking Companies to Manage and Measure Their Impacts
As You Sow Press Release
RELEASE: ExxonMobil Shareowners Deliver Strong Call for Fracking Data
As You Sow Press Release
Rationale for Backing ExxonMobil Fracking Motion Set Out by Investor Groups
RESPONSIBLE INVESTOR – Shareholder advocacy group As You Sow, supported by the Investor Environmental Health Network (IEHN) and fund manager Green Century Capital Management, has issued a detailed rationale for supporting its shareholder proposal on … MORE
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
Chevron, Exxon Investors Sustain Calls For Fracking Disclosure
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Staying Afloat as Assets Get Stranded
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FirstEnergy – Coal – 2011
Resolved: Shareowners request that FirstEnergy’s Board of Directors, at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information, issue a report by November 2011 on the financial risks of continued reliance on coal contrasted with increased investments in … MORE
FirstEnergy Coal 2012
Shareowners request that FirstEnergy Board of Directors report to shareholders by December 2012, at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information, on plans to reduce our company’s exposure to coal‐related costs and risks, including progress toward … MORE
FirstEnergy – Coal – 2013
Shareowners request that FirstEnergy adopt strategies and quantitative goals to reduce the company’s impacts on, and risks to, water quantity and quality, above and beyond regulatory compliance, and to report to shareholders by September 2013 … MORE
ExxonMobil – Hydraulic Fracturing – 2011
Shareholders request that the Board of Directors prepare a report by October 2011, at reasonable cost and omitting confidential information such as proprietary or legally prejudicial data, summarizing: 1) Known and potential environmental impacts of Exxon Mobil’s … MORE
ExxonMobil – Hydraulic Fracturing – 2012
Shareholders request that the Board of Directors prepare a report to investors by September 2012, at reasonable cost and excluding confidential or legally prejudicial data, on the short‐term and long‐term risks to Exxon Mobil operations,finances … MORE
ExxonMobil Fracking 2013
Shareholders request the Board of Directors to report to shareholders by October 30, 2013, and annually thereafter, using multiple quantitative indicators,the results of company procedures and practices, above and beyond regulatory requirements,to minimize any adverse … MORE
Entergy – Coal – 2011
Shareowners request that Entergy’s Board of Directors, at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information, issue a report by November 2011 on the financial risks of continued reliance on coal contrasted with increased investments in efficiency and cleaner … MORE
Duke Energy – Coal – 2011
Shareowners request that Duke Energy’s Board of Directors, at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information, issue a report by November 2011 on the financial risks of continued reliance on coal contrasted with increased investments in efficiency and … MORE
Duke Energy – Coal – 2012
Share owners request that the Duke Board of Directors report to shareholders by November 2012, a treasonable cost and omitting proprietary information, on plans to reduce our company’s exposure to coal‐related costs and risks, including … MORE
