Western Citizens Seek To Reinstate Roadless Area Protections:
The 2001 Roadless Rule was a widely supported regulation that protected over 58 million acres of public land on national forests from road construction, commercial logging, and development. Hunters, fishermen, hikers, and millions of regular Americans considered it one of the greatest forest conservation measures in U.S. history. Despite its valuable protections, the 2001 Roadless Rule was formally repealed by the Bush administration in May of 2005. …
JUDGE ORDERS DISCLOSURE OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED "BIOPHARM" CROP LOCATIONS(A)
Ruling an Unprecedented Victory for Citizen Oversight of Biotech Experiments …
2003-04 Advocacy Roundup(A)
Shareholder activism professionals (admittedly, a job category you will not find in any Labor Department surveys) refer to it as “the season” – the months between the autumn deadlines for filing shareholder proposals and the spring shareholder meetings in which the voting results are announced. The season is the opposite of a quiet week in Lake Wobegon. We trade legalistic paperwork challenges at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), meet with companies to persuade them to implement our proposals, and if that fails, we try to get large institutional investors to vote for them. (If that fails, well, summer’s on …
Bush Administration Illegally Delays Protection of Pacific Fisher(A)
Administration plays politics while old-growth dependent mammal heads for extinction …
Office Depot Strengthens Protections for Forests(A)
Socially responsible investors and environmental groups hail the stronger policies, which we had urged the company to adopt. …
Federal Court Reigns In Logging Pollution(A)
Water Pollution from Logging Operations Will Require Federal Permits …
Environmental Shareholder Proposal Wins a Strong 11% at BP(A)
Trillium Asset Management Director of Social Research and Advocacy Shelley Alpern reports from the April 18, 2002 BP Annual General Meeting in London that the environmental shareholder proposal, calling upon the company to assess risks of drilling in sensitive areas, won a very respectable 11% of the shareholder vote. …
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