by
Dorothy Hinchcliff
SRI and faith-based investors welcome a new SEC rule but wanted additional provisions.
Ford Motor Co., debuting five battery-powered models this year, is
spending $135 million to design electric-drive parts and double battery
testing capacity.
by
Dorothy Hinchcliff
Stockpiles of the biggest crops will decline for a third year as drought
parches fields across three continents, raising food-import costs
already forecast by the United Nations to reach a...
The scientist at the center of a dispute over the content of advertising
of Horizon fortified organic milk said she's satisfied
by the company's confirmation that it expects to stop referring to...
by
Karen DeMasters
In this presidential election year, Green Century Capital Management is
putting pressure on companies to stop making political contributions.
A record heat wave, drought and catastrophic wildfires are accomplishing
what climate scientists could not: convincing a wide swath of Americans
that global temperatures are rising.
Replacing coal with natural gas cuts the creation of greenhouse gases
that cause global warming, a Cornell University researcher has concluded.
The EPA said it won't place
restrictions on smaller polluters in a rule that limits industrial and
automotive emissions of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide.
New Jersey has surpassed California as the state with the most solar, and now Governor Chris Christie is expected to sign legislation
that would increase the amount of solar energy state utilities...
The EPA was "unambiguously correct" in
moving to set limits on industrial and automotive emissions of
greenhouse gases including carbon dioxide, a federal appeals court said.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is leading an effort by 58 of the
world's largest cities to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions while federal
governments struggle to meet global targets following...
by
Karen DeMasters
Sustainable and socially responsible operating procedures by U.S...
Chesapeake Energy Corp.'s decision to cut directors' pay and other
perks may save the company up to $1...
T. Boone Pickens, the Texas billionaire who spent the past decade
promoting U.S...
by
Dorothy Hinchcliff
A group of activist investors representing $1 trillion in assets under
management is pushing for higher standards for hydraulic fracturing, a
process energy companies use to extract natural gas.
by
Jim McConville
Finra has issued
an alert warning investors about stock scams involving fake or thinly traded companies
selling everything from fortified foods and energy drinks to "natural"
medicines.
by Virginia Munger Kahn
The iShares Human Rights Index Fund would join just four other broadly diversified ETFs that use environmental, social and governance (ESG) screens to pick investments.
Chesapeake Energy Corp. CEO Aubrey McClendon told
investors he's "deeply sorry" that his personal finances have come under
scrutiny as shares fell the most in more than three years.
Californians are on course to vote whether genetically modified food
must be labeled following a campaign that has targeted Monsanto Co. and
other biotech-crop companies.
