Recently, Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (LOW) pulled advertising from a television show, All-American Muslim, after the Florida Family Association (FFA) complained about the content of the show. The reality show follows the lives of a group of Muslim-American families in a Detroit suburb with a sizable Muslim population and addresses issues of religious intolerance and discrimination. According [...]

Trillium Asset Management, LLC, a Boston-based pioneer in the field of environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing, reported out today on the results of its 2011 proxy season engagements with nearly two dozen major U.S. corporations. (For a full listing of our 2011 Shareholder Proposals, scroll to the end of the page.)
“A good portion of [...]

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Expectations of the global community are growing, such that companies must have policies to promote and protect human rights within their areas of activity and sphere of influence to help promote and protect a company’s reputation as a good corporate citizen.
Corporations operating in countries with civil conflict, weak rule of law, endemic corruption, poor labor [...]

“The entire case is looming like a hammer over shareholders’ heads. Chevron should start fresh with a new approach that embraces environmental responsibility and risk management as part of its corporate culture. More legal proceedings will only delay the inevitable.” ~ New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli

Shelley Alpern, Trillium’s Director of ESG Research and Shareholder Advocacy, was quoted in guardian.co.uk on May 25, 2011:  ”The Ecuadorian courts are but one step away from seizing Chevron’s assets to pay for the record $18bn judgment. It doesn’t seem unreasonable to hope that a settlement agreement might be brokered that comes in below this extraordinary amount, [...]

Contact:
Shelley Alpern, Trillium   (617) 292-8026, x 248
Jonas Kron, Esq., Trillium   (503) 592-0864
Sanford Lewis, Esq.   (413) 549-7333
Boston, MA, May 23, 2011 – Trillium Asset Management (“Trillium”) has requested that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) undertake a staff review to examine whether Chevron Corp. has appropriately disclosed to its shareholders the scope and magnitude of financial [...]

Trillium Asset Management Corporation (Trillium) is leading a group of 40 international investors in issuing a public statement condemning abusive workplace conditions in the global electronics supply chain. The lead group of investors, including Trillium, the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, Boston Common Asset Management, LLC, As You Sow and Domini Social Investments LLC, are sending a [...]

STRONG SUPPORT FROM CHEVRON SHAREHOLDERS FOR PROPOSAL TO STRENGTHEN DIRECTORS’ ENVIRONMENTAL EXPERTISE
May 26, 2010, Houston – The proponents of a stockholder proposal at Chevron Corporation seeking greater board environmental expertise hailed the 27% in support it received, according to preliminary results released by the company.
“As a businessman and investor, I know how important it [...]

February 2, 2010 – Trillium Asset Management Corporation has joined a coalition of investors in calling on major electronics, medical device and automobile component manufactures, to ensure that the companies are not aiding conflict and human rights abuses by purchasing supplies from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The investors, who represent almost $200 [...]

It’s been 64 years since the end of World War II but Holocaust stories in popular culture continue to cascade. Kate Winslet won an Oscar this year for her portrayal of a concentration camp guard in The Reader. John Demjanjuk, who served as a guard at three different death camps, was deported from the United [...]