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Investors launch five-year global initiative to engage largest corporate greenhouse gas emitters to act on climate change
USA: Corporate Equality Index scores record number of companies full marks for having inclusive policies for LGBT workers
USA: Georgia Power settles disability discrimination lawsuit for $1.6 million
Author: Kevin McGowan, Bloomberg (USA)
"Georgia Power, EEOC Settle Disabilities Lawsuit for $1.6M", 16 Nov 2016...
- Related in-depth areas: Latest Legal News
- Related companies: Georgia Power (part of Southern Company) Southern Company
Shareholder resolutions increase pressure on companies to address climate change
Author: Benjamin Hulac, Environment & Energy Publishing (E&E) (USA)
"Spurred by Paris, shareholder climate resolutions reach new high", 9 Mar 2016...
- Related in-depth areas: Accountability: Loss & damage, litigation, shareholder activism Mitigation
- Related companies: AES Anadarko Chevron Devon Energy ExxonMobil Hess Corporation Noble Energy Occidental Petroleum Shell Southern Company Statoil Suncor
A Climate Plan Businesses Can Like
Author: Jody Freeman & Kate Konschnik, New York Times (USA)
With the release of President Obama’s Clean Power Plan, a flood of legal challenges will begin. Already, opponents have denounced the new rule limiting carbon pollution as unconstitutional. Behind the rattling sabers, however…[m]any big players in the...
- Related stories: USA: Obama announces major climate change plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
- Related companies: Calpine Exelon MidAmerican Energy (part of Berkshire Hathaway) PG&E Southern Company
Commentary: "Internal documents show fossil fuel industry has been aware of climate change for decades"
Author: Elliott Negin, Union of Concerned Scientists, (USA)
"Internal documents show fossil fuel industry has been aware of climate change for decades", 8 July 2015...
Subcritical coal top 20: Engaging energy companies on climate & human rights impacts
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US and Chinese companies dominate list of most-polluting coal plants
Author: Damian Carrington, Guardian (UK)
The 100 global power companies most at risk from growing pressure to shut highly polluting coal plants have been revealed in a new report from Oxford University....
- Related stories: Subcritical coal top 20: Engaging energy companies on climate & human rights impacts
- Related companies: AES Ameren American Electric Power China Guodian China Huadian China Power Investment China Resources Enterprises China Shenhua Energy (part of Shenhua Group) Datang International Power Generation Duke Energy E.ON Edison International Eskom Huaneng Power International NRG Energy NTPC RWE Southern Company State Grid Corporation of China Vattenfall
Shareholders File Resolutions to Press Fossil Fuel Companies on Low-Carbon Strategies, Carbon Asset Risk
Author: Ceres
On the heels of the Investor Summit on Climate Risk at the United Nations, a half-dozen investors...announced the filing of shareholder resolutions with 10 fossil fuel companies, including Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Southern Company, Hess, Anadarko, Devon,...
EEOC alleges disability discrimination at Georgia Power [USA]
Author: Jacques Couret, Atlanta Business Chronicle (USA)
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed a lawsuit Monday against Georgia Power Co. alleging the Southern Co. unit discriminated against employees and applicants because of their disabilities. The EEOC suit claims Georgia Power...
- Related companies: Georgia Power (part of Southern Company) Southern Company