Sustainable shareholders crank up pressure on corporate America

James S Murray
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Chevron and Home Depot latest to face environment-related shareholder resolutions during record proxy season

The extent to which shareholders can pressurise firms into improving their sustainability policies was underlined once again this week as two of the biggest names in corporate America, Chevron and Home...

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