by
Dorothy Hinchcliff
Chevron and ExxonMobil shareholders today showed strong support for resolutions that would require the companies to report on environmental and financial risks of using a controversial means of...
by
Dorothy Hinchcliff
Bank of America today announced a $55 million program to encourage energy efficiency in older buildings by providing low-cost loans and grants to community development financial institutions.
by
Dorothy Hinchcliff
There's a lot of talk about $4-a-gallon gasoline being the tipping point
where Americans will trade in their gas-guzzling SUVs and bigger cars
for more economical vehicles that might use...
Cogentrix Energy LLC, a unit of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., received a $90.6 million conditional loan guarantee from the U.S. Energy Departmentto build a solar plant in Colorado.
Lloyd C. Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs Group Inc.,today again faces shareholders angry about its bonuses and businesspractices.
by
Dorothy Hinchcliff
Australia's sovereign wealth fund dumped holdings in mine and cluster bomb makers as the nation prepares to ratify a treaty banning the weapons.
by Stephen Viederman
In this commentary, an activist investor says an advisor who talk with clients about proxy voting is not only acting in their best interest, but would also be providing a welcome service and creating...
by Ellie Winninghoff
A new online course aims to help financial advisors learn what responsible investing is and understand which ESG issues drive their clients.
by Jerilyn Klein Bier
CBIS invests CBIS invests big in an effort to get companies with poor ESG performance to change their ways.
by Jerilyn Klein Bier
How large the SRI industry is and how much it's under the radar surprises this financial advisor, who's been trying to make it more visible for investors and other advisors.
by
Dorothy Hinchcliff
Fifteen entrepreneurs get a chance to pitch their start-up business plans to a group of 150 impact investors.
Sarah Endline asked Golden Seeds, a group of mostly women angel
investors, to help contribute $1.5 million to expand her candy company...
BP Plc, whose share price has dropped 29% since last year's Gulf of Mexico oil spill, will face opposition from two of the U.S.'s largestpension funds at the company's annual general meeting tomorrow.
FTSE Group, manager of the FTSE4Good Index series of responsible investment products, has launched a new data service to objectively measure the environmental, social and governance practices of over...
An SEC rule making it easier for
shareholders to oust board members was based on "serious error" in
assessing its cost to companies, a lawyer for business groups told a
U.S. appeals court.
The EPA's power to regulate greenhouse gases blamed for climate change may be in jeopardy as the House and Senate vote on measures that would restrict the agency's authority.
Google Inc. and Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. have shown interest in buying wind turbines to supply power along railroad lines and at computer server farms.
Solar panel installations may surge in the next two years as the cost ofgenerating electricity from the sun rivals coal-fueled plants, industryexecutives and analysts said.
by Tom Kostigen
Buried deep within this year's fiscal federal budget is a $100 million
line item that may be the best bridge between public and private
investing ever invented.
by
Dorothy Hinchcliff
The PowerShares Cleantech Portfolio ETF finished firstlast year among 36 public equity funds focused on clean energy and/or clean technology, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
