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Trillium hires SRI Veteran Paul Hilton

Tuesday, June 7th, 2011

June 7, 2011
Boston, MA – Trillium Asset Management is pleased to announce that Paul Hilton, CFA, has joined the firm as a portfolio manager. Mr. Hilton has been involved in sustainable and responsible investing for over 15 years, working on both the investment and sustainability research and advocacy sides.
“We are delighted to have Paul join [...]

Home Depot Shareholders Urge Company to Improve Diversity Disclosure

Wednesday, June 1st, 2011

Boston, MA, June 1, 2011
Investors will cast their votes tomorrow at the annual meeting of The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) on a shareholder proposal calling on the company to prepare a diversity report. The resolution, filed by members of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility requests that the report include the following:
1. A chart identifying [...]

Large Investor Coalition Urges Chevron to Explore Settlement in Rainforest Pollution Lawsuit; Related Shareholder Proposal Gets 25% of Vote

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

“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

Trillium Asks Securities and Exchange Commission to Investigate Chevron Corporation’s Disclosures Re Historic Ecuadorian Judgment

Monday, May 23rd, 2011

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 Signs on to Amicus Brief to Defend Montana’s Ban on Corporate Political Contributions

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

Coalition of socially responsible investors seeks to protect the First Amendment rights of their investors 
Trillium Asset Management announced today that it has signed on to an amicus curiae brief in Western Tradition Partnership v. Attorney General of the State of Montana, currently before the Supreme Court of the State of Montana.  Trillium is joined by [...]

2011 Bavaria Award Recipients: KLD Co-founder Peter Kinder and Root Capital’s William Foote

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

Building a Sustainable Global Economy: KLD Co-founder Peter Kinder and Root Capital’s William Foote Recipients of 2011 Bavaria Awards
May 11, 2011
OAKLAND—Socially responsible investing advocates Peter Kinder, co-founder and president until 2009 of KLD Research & Analytics, and William Foote, founder and CEO of Root Capital, were honored last night, May 10, by Ceres and Trillium [...]

Largest Open Pit Mine in North America Cause for Investor Concerns– Investors Representing $170 Billion Urge EPA to Safeguard Alaska’s Bristol Bay

Tuesday, April 12th, 2011

Trillium and Calvert-Led Investor Coalition Asks EPA for Clean Water Act (CWA) Review for Pebble Copper and Gold Mine, Sited for the Headwaters of the Bristol Bay Fishery Reserve.
BOSTON///April 12, 2011///Nearly 30 investor organizations representing over $170 billion in assets are urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to initiate a review process under the [...]

Trillium joins investors in urging oil companies in Libya to cut off support to Qaddafi regime

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

Oil Companies Should Halt Revenue Payments to Government, Fund Civilian Recovery
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Twenty-four institutional investors, including Trillium Asset Management, called on oil companies doing business in Libya to halt revenue or other payments to the Libyan government. The investors have called on oil companies to place revenue payments into a Libya Recovery Fund that [...]

Target & Best Buy Announce New Policies on Political Spending

Friday, February 18th, 2011

Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) and Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) have revised their policies on  political spending in the aftermath of the nationwide controversy that erupted following last summer’s contributions to MN Forward, an independent political committee that funneled money to a gubernatorial candidate known for his extreme opposition to lesbian and gay civil rights. The [...]

Trillium Joins Investors in Challenging Nine Oil and Gas Companies on Hydraulic Fracturing Practices

Friday, February 11th, 2011

January 21, 2011
Trillium Files Resolution with Anadarko Petroleum to Spur More Responsible “Fracking” Practices
BOSTON – Leading U.S. investors today announced they have filed shareholder resolutions with nine oil and gas companies, pressing them to disclose their plans for managing water pollution, litigation and regulatory risks that are increasingly associated with ever-expanding natural gas hydraulic fracturing [...]


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