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Bloomberg News
China and the U.S., the world’s two biggest emitters of carbon dioxide, pledged to cooperate in addressing climate change amid stalled international talks on protecting the environment.
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Bloomberg News
Former J.C. Penney CEO was paid compensation nearly 1,800 times the average department store worker.
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Bloomberg News
Brad Kriser has been known to down a dog biscuit or two. Kriser, the founder of an upscale pet-food chain that’s opening stores in major U.S. cities, sees his pets as family.
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Bloomberg News
AIG, the insurer that repaid a U.S. bailout last year, will release workforce-diversity data after pressure from New York City Comptroller and mayoral candidate John Liu.
by Dennis Clark
Consider these three seemingly obvious tenants as you listen to your client talk passionately about their values.
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Bloomberg News
A growing desire to eat healthier and men interested in kitchen appliances are driving sales at some big retailers.
by FA Staff
Proxy resolutions suggest investors are fired up about corporate political spending and the environment.
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Bloomberg News
Citigroup Inc. executives stand to collect $579 million under profit-sharing plans that include the one shareholders voted against last year.
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Bloomberg News
Major food businesses including Kellogg Co. received failing grades in an Oxfam International report on how they support sustainability and human rights, including the treatment of women.
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Kathy Lynch
ICCR has released its 2013 Proxy Resolutions and Voting Guide urging shareholders to vote their proxies to support ICCR member proposals that advance social, economic and environmental justice.
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Caren Chesler
Stephanie Rudy says she never considered social investing because she always figured that if people want to buy things like cigarettes, she didn’t mind investing in the company that makes them --...
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Karen DeMasters
An anti-smoking crusade is being taken to movie companies by shareholders who are filing resolutions asking that movies designed for young people eliminate smoking or have R ratings.
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Dorothy Hinchcliff
A Boston-based fixed-income manager with $17.5 billion in AUM has developed a new method that it believes is critical to reducing risk in its portfolios.
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Dorothy Hinchcliff
Sustainable investor groups are urging the SEC not to let a recently filed lawsuit delay the agency from implementing a rule that requires U.S...
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Dorothy Hinchcliff
The first investable green property indexes for institutional and retail
investors have been developed by FTSE Group, NAREIT and the U.S. Green
Building Council, the three groups announced today.
The U.S. EPA should force oil and
natural-gas producers to disclose the chemicals they release during
drilling, hydraulic fracturing, compressing and storage, environmental
groups said.
Investment in renewable energy fell 20 percent from a year ago in the
third quarter as wind farm financings dropped and the pace of spending
eased in the U.S...
A quiet revolution in energy efficiency continuing in the United States has resulted in demand shrinking for electricity.
Power producers in the U.S. aren't calculating the cost of often scarce
water resources for such energy sources as nuclear, coal, natural gas
and biomass, according to a report.
