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 Despite its valuable protections, the 2001 Roadless Rule was formally repealed by the Bush administration in May of 2005. …
Trillium Asset Management Advocates Broad Range of Corporate Reforms in 2005(A)
Enters 23rd year of “Investing for a Better World” With Ambitious Advocacy Agenda …
American Electric Power – Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions (2004)
RESOLUTION REQUESTING A REPORT ON THE ECONOMIC IMPACT ON OUR COMPANY OF REDUCING CARBON EMISSIONS WHEREAS: In 2001, power plants owned and operated by AEP emitted more carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and mercury than the powers plants of any other electric utility company in the United States. U.S. power plants emit about two-thirds of the country’s sulfur dioxide emissions, one-quarter of its nitrogen oxides emissions, one-third of its mercury emissions, nearly 40 percent of its carbon dioxide emissions, and 10 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions. Scientific studies show that each year, air pollution from U.S. power plants …
Thirty-Five U.S. Senators Ask President Bush to Rescind Policy That Expose Wetlands, Streams, and Other Waters to Pollution(A)
Senator Feingold Leads Efforts Protect the Nation's Waters …
States, Conservation Groups File Brief Challenging Bush Administration's Global Warming Policy(A)
Coalition challenges EPA policy reversal on pollution …
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 …
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