Chevron and Unocal: Two of a Kind (A)
On Wall Street, mega-mergers are usually celebrated. After all, they portend layoffs, bumped up profit margins and investment banking revenues. What's not to like? In the case of Chevron's proposed $16 billion acquisition of Unocal, plenty. At least if you care about national security, the environment or what the rest of the world thinks about America. …
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 …
2005 Shareholder Advocacy Preview: A Poem(A)
(With Apologies to Major Henry Livingston, Jr.) …
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 …
Human Rights Activist Bianca Jagger Seconds Trillium Asset Managment Shareholder Proposal at ChevronTexaco (A)
Company's Legacy of Environmental Contamination in Ecuador Dominates Annual Meeting …
Leading Institutional Investors in Exxon Mobil Call On CEO Lee Raymond to Update Nondiscrimination Statement to Include Sexual Orientation (A)
Stockholders owning more than $2.36 billion dollars of common stock in ExxonMobil have written to CEO Lee Raymond calling upon the company to implement a sexual orientation nondiscrimination policy …
Trillium Asset Management Joins Investor Delegation in Ecuadorian Amazon to Investigate Claims that ChevronTexaco Polluted Ecosystem(A)
Trillium Asset Management’s Director of Social Research & Advocacy, Shelley Alpern, returned this week from a fact-finding trip to Ecuador to tour sites polluted by oil drilling in the country’s sensitive Amazonian rainforest region. Trillium is the sponsor of a shareholder resolution at ChevronTexaco addressing the environmental and health impacts of its oil drilling operations, which were conducted by Texaco in the 1970s and ‘80s. …
Human Rights Resolution Passes First Year Vote Hurdle at BJ Services
Trillium Asset Management's resolution calling on the company to consider human rights issues in Burma and around the world gained enough votes to stay before the company next year if needed. …
ChevronTexaco Faces Toxic Legacy in Ecuador(A)
Trillium Asset Management Shareholder Resolution Highlights Unfinished Cleanup of Highly Polluted Indigenous Lands …
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