Shareholder Activism
Clean Yield successfully withdraws proposal on political transparency at Alphabet
Clean Yield is pleased to announce the withdrawal of a shareholder proposal filed at Alphabet seeking increased political transparency. Since Clean Yield filed the proposal, Alphabet has meaningfully strengthened its systems for managing political activities. Most notably, the company has… Read More >
#timesup for mandatory arbitration
Amidst the onslaught of news stories about sexual harassment – from Uber to News Corp to the Humane Society – one story caught our eye. In December, Microsoft announced that it was supporting legislation addressing sexual harassment and would end… Read More >
2017 Proxy Season Wrap-up
The 2017 proxy season brought new highs and lows for shareholder advocates. The volume of shareholder voices reached new decibels this year, with record votes in support of climate risk disclosure at major energy companies Exxon Mobil, Occidental Petroleum, and… Read More >
Putting Sustainability Oversight Into the CEO’s Job Description
The average corporate CEO makes over $16 million per year. Although the image of the CEO goes hand in hand with office treadmills and bottomless cups of coffee, I sometimes wonder if they are, paradoxically, the most unmotivated people in… Read More >
Grocery Store Giant Commits to Fairer Wages for Farm Laborers
This summer, the parent company of Giant, Stop & Shop, and Peapod, Koninklijke Ahold NV joined the Coalition of Immokalee Workers’ (CIW) Fair Food Program, in one swoop increasing the number of U.S grocery stores carrying Fair Food tomatoes by… Read More >
A Real Buzzkill: Neonicotinoids
For a couple of weeks each spring, I find a few bumblebees — or their corpses — when I enter my home office in the morning. Massive, buzzing loudly, and flying confusedly about the room, the live ones must be… Read More >
General Mills Updates Pollinator Policies
Clean Yield Asset Management was pleased to withdraw a shareholder proposal at General Mills, co-filed with As You Sow Foundation, after a constructive dialogue resulting additional commitments by the company to support beleaguered pollinator populations. In so doing, General Mills… Read More >
Proxy Music
Readers, grab a cocktail and prepare to hear incredible but true tales from Clean Yield’s 2015 proxy season, a compendium of surprises both pleasant and unpleasant, some outright success stories, ironic twists, and at least one instance of bad luck.… Read More >
Clean Yield’s 2014 Proxy Season Wrap-Up
Forget Game of Thrones. The real drama this year concerned the fate of Clean Yield’s shareholder proposals and the outcomes of our dialogues with corporations. We’ve been in talks with HBO — for what seems like forever — about a… Read More >
Proxy Help Is On The Way!
April is the cruelest month, wrote T.S. Eliot, and he didn’t even have to deal with an influx of corporate proxy ballots, guiltily cluttering his in-box and begging to be voted in time for their respective stockholder meetings.
As we… Read More >