Shareholder advocacy group As You Sow partnered with Energy Innovation to release a study titled “Natural Gas: A Bridge to Climate Breakdown” to look at the potential climate impacts of natural gas as many states enacted legislation in recent years to transition away from carbon-based energy. Read More →
Read More“As states clamp down on greenhouse gas emissions, long-lived natural gas infrastructure is increasingly likely to be stranded,” said Lila Holzman of shareholder advocacy group As You Sow, which filed the resolutions. By excluding the resolutions, “These companies are seeking to avoid responsibility for a risk that will only grow.” Read More →
Read MoreIf American CEO compensation is indeed tied to company performance, many are getting overpaid, according to one corporate responsibility research group. Among them are the chiefs of JPMorgan, Ameriprise, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs, according to As You Sow’s new report. Read More →
Read MoreMost U.S. power utilities are still investing in gas-fired power plants and pipelines that will be operating “far beyond what is permitted in climate stabilization model,” the As You Sow group said in a report written in collaboration with the policy firm Energy Innovation. Read More →
Read MoreIn its annual 100 Most Overpaid CEOs list — topped by Oracle, Align Technology and The Walt Disney Co. — As You Sow makes the case that oversight of CEO pay is lacking. Read More →
Read MoreIn the report, “The 100 Most Overpaid CEOs,” the nonprofit As You Sow lists the most egregious examples. The CEO compensation and average employee compensation come from data that corporations now have to disclose to the SEC and are based on data from the most recent fiscal year. The “overpayment” calculation is based on a statistical regression model from the investment services company HIP Investor that looks at what CEOs should have made based on longer-term company performance. Read More →
Read MoreCompany shareholders are well-positioned to address income inequality by clamping down on sky high corporate pay, but new research says they’ll have to put their mouth where their money is.
Read MoreSince becoming president and CEO of Discovery Inc. 12 years ago, David Zaslav has consistently ranked near the top among highest-paid CEOs in media and entertainment. In 2014 and again last year, he was the top-paid CEO of a public company in the United States.
Read MorePresident of As You Sow Danielle Fugere said responsible water usage is especially important in the southwest U.S. She said 51 percent of oil and gas wells in Texas – the largest oil-producing state – are in high or extremely-high stressed water regions. “As climate change increases water scarcity in certain regions, investors need assurance that companies are responsibly managing the amount of water they use to protect communities, the environment, and other water users,” she said.
Read MoreReleased on Wednesday morning, the report reviewed the 30 of the largest publicly traded oil and gas gas companies in the United States and Canada.
Read MoreModern slavery compliance is becoming a bigger focus at U.S.-based and other multinationals.
Read MoreCEO pay figures for 2019 are out, and again they beg the question of what should determine the big boss’s compensation?
Read MoreShareholders filed proposals on nearly 400 environmental, social and sustainability issues at U.S. companies through mid-February.
Read MoreThe UK’s messy divorce from the EU has been a source of frustration for fund management executives since the referendum nearly three years ago.
Read MoreU.S. companies that use nonstandard numbers to calculate executive compensation are overpaying their top managers, according to a new research report.
Read MoreProxy season is underway, in which companies face their shareholders and their concerns on social issues, and there has been a surge in human rights proposals aimed at such issues as immigration rights and detention, child sexual exploitation, hate speech and privacy.
Read MoreYou want to make money on your investments and put your money to work to do good in the world at the same time.
Read MoreProponents have filed at least 386 shareholder resolutions on environmental, social and sustainability issues for the 2019 proxy season, Environmental, Social & Sustainability Resolutions with 303 still pending as of February 15.
Read MoreIn 2015, As You Sow embarked on a mission to identify and report on the most overpaid CEOs of the S&P 500 and whether or not pension funds and financial managers held companies accountable for such excessive compensation.
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