[We're pleased to excerpt this press release from Ceres, the Investor Network on Climate Risk and the Environmental Defense Fund. Trillium Asset Management Corporation participated heavily in the lobbying efforts that lead to this breakthrough.]
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Peyton Fleming, Ceres, 617-733-6660 or fleming@ceres.org
Steve Tripoli, Ceres, 617-247-0700 x155 or tripoli@ceres.org
Sharyn Stein, EDF, 202-572-3396 or sstein@edf.org
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December 2009 – The Securities and Exchange Commission moved to finalize a new rule that requires companies to disclose annual meeting voting results within four business days after the annual meeting. Trillium argued vigorously in support of this rule change because we believe the value of vote totals is greatest immediately after the annual meeting. [...]

“In a policy reversal long sought by shareholder advocates, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ruled yesterday that investors can directly call on public companies to describe the financial risks they face from global warming,”   according to E&E News ClimateWire.
Trillium has been a leader in pushing the SEC on this issue, and Senior Social Research [...]

October 27, 2009 -  ­ This morning the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced a reversal in policy that will allow shareholders to resume filing resolutions that ask companies to discuss the risks associated with climate change, toxic chemicals, rising health care costs and other significant social and environmental policies issues. Under the Bush Administration, [...]

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Boston, MA (April 27, 2009) ­ Trillium Asset Management Corporation (”Trillium”) is joining two nonprofit advocacy organizations, the International Labor Rights Forum and the International Rivers Network, in calling on fellow Berkshire Hathaway investors to back a proposal on the agenda for the company’s upcoming May 2, 2009 annual [...]

Everyone, from the progressive Left to “Obamican” crossovers, has high hopes for the new administration. Social investors are no exception. We share the expectation that the Obama administration will take a hands-on approach to many of the problems we’ve addressed for years, including climate change and other environmental priorities, predatory lending, inadequate regulation of the [...]

Obama Administration has the Opportunity to Reverse SEC Policies that Censored Environmental and Social Inquiries
The current financial and economic crisis demonstrates the extent to which all sectors and all participants in the market, whether companies, investors, employees, or communities, are interrelated and deeply affected by the actions of any one participant. Protecting and enhancing the [...]

The Securities and Exchange Commission has asked investors and investment advisers to help them engage in “a fundamental rethinking of financial disclosure, beginning with the basic purposes of disclosure from the perspective of investors and markets.” This sounds too good to be true, because in a sense it is. The 21st Century Disclosure Initiative, as [...]

Thanks (presumably) to 34,000 emails vehemently opposing the repeal of shareholders’ right to file non-binding ballot proposals, social investors dodged a bullet this fall. On November 28, the Securities and Exchange Commission failed to follow through on its earlier hints that the rules governing shareholder proposals might be significantly tightened, even to the point of [...]

For the 2007-2008 shareholder resolution season (which roughly parallels an academic year), Trillium Asset Management Corporation (”Trillium”) has filed 18 shareholder proposals addressing a wide range of environmental and social justice concerns. Thirteen resolutions on which we are acting as lead* filer are highlighted in this article. All the proposals we are involved in are [...]