Environmental Health Program

Under Executive Order 12898, federal agencies will make environmental justice core to their mission and practices; requiring each to create agency-wide environmental justice strategies, amongst other important goals.

This second annual Top Corporate Watchdogs report highlights what we see as the best independent sources of information on corporate impact. We use many of these sources in our ratings of company and fund impact at Ethos.

This second annual Top Corporate Watchdogs report highlights what we see as the best independent sources of information on corporate impact. We use many of these sources in our ratings of company and fund impact at Ethos.

As we watch the climate crisis consume our planet, the role of colonization in the degradation of our environment must be considered. We are witnessing the impacts of extreme temperature changes, raging wildfires, and natural disasters.

Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow and Heidi Welsh, founding executive director of the Sustainable Investments Institute (Si2), give an overview of some outcomes from this proxy season.

Danielle Fugere, president of As You Sow and Ivan Frishberg, director of Impact Policy at Amalgamated Bank discuss the important role banks have in addressing the climate crisis.

In yet another blow to German chemical giant Bayer, a U.S. court recently dismissed the company’s proposed $2 billion settlement as unconscionable in seeking to prevent future legal claims from cancer victims exposed to Roundup.

Power utilities are at a juncture where they can continue to slow climate action with regressive lobbying or instead support Paris aligned policy and take advantage of opportunities inherent in the clean energy transition.

We are engaging over 100 companies and escalating by filing 73 shareholder resolutions on a range of critical issues. We are calling for a commitment of absolute cuts in the use of plastic packaging . . .