The shareowner rights advocacy group in a letter warns the agency against sidelining smaller investors and discounting risk management issues that touch political issues.
New guidance from the Securities and Exchange Commission will make it easier for public companies to get the greenlight to exclude shareholder proposals on company proxy statements, experts said, but investor and business groups are split on whether that’s a good thing.
This presidential administration is poised to roll back financial regulations that protect long-term, diversified investors. Both public and private markets face a wave of deregulatory efforts that would weaken investor protections and undermine corporate accountability.
Consider a food bank discovering that its operating reserves are in banks that finance industrial agriculture, the very system contributing to food insecurity and displacing small community farms. Or think about a housing nonprofit realizing that its primary bank engages in predatory lending practices that push families into homelessness.
UnitedHealth Group is attempting to swat down a non-binding shareholder proposal that asked the company to prepare reports on the costs of delayed and denied healthcare.
WASHINGTON – ISSA has joined a coalition of over 200 businesses and industry groups to express their strong support for the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Safer Choice program.
Political situation will see investors give companies more flexibility on communication around sustainability efforts.
Hundreds of religious communities have joined with businesses, universities and colleges, major investors, local governments, states, and tribal nations in declaring they will continue the work of fulfilling the U.S. pledge in the Paris Agreement.
As the new Trump administration plans to make big cuts across the federal government, a coalition of over 200 businesses, investors, and organizations has issued a letter expressing united support for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Safer Choice program. This voluntary program, which labels cleaning products meeting stringent safety and environmental standards, is seen by businesses as a […]
A coalition of businesses and organizations representing a broad swath of the economy, including ISSA, the American Sustainable Business Network (ASBN), the Household & Commercial Products Association (HCPA), Change Chemistry, the American Cleaning Institute, the Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), and the Alternative Fuels & Chemicals Coalition (AFCC), have come together to express their […]
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