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Environmentalists scored a win against a corporate giant last year when Procter & Gamble Co. shareholders backed a proposal asking the maker of Charmin toilet paper and Bounty paper towel to report on its efforts to address deforestation. This year, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club and several dozen descendants of P&G’s founding families are lobbying…

This is a micro episode. I could not record long because it’s too hard to concentrate with all the pounding going on outside my office window.

Chevron Corp. said Monday it has an “aspiration” to reduce or offset carbon emissions from its operations to zero by 2050, as investor and public pressure mounts on oil producers to respond to climate change. The company also for the first time set a target for reducing the intensity of the carbon emissions from the fuel and…

The info below is not sponsored. Simply Safe Dividends is a service I use to evaluate companies in my portfolio. On Thursday, Pinnacle West received bad news regarding its pending rate case with state regulators when the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) voted to reduce the potential profits of the state’s largest electric utility.The ACC moved…

Nucor Corporation (NUE) announced today the launch of Econiq™, a line of net-zero carbon steel products. Building the green economy and the necessary infrastructure requires clean, advanced steel products. By introducing Econiq, Nucor is providing confidence for steel consumers to know they are purchasing the lowest greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions steel product available. A first of…

Johnson & Johnson said Tuesday that the company had submitted data to the Food and Drug Administration to support the use of a booster dose of its Covid-19 vaccine. The announcement comes two weeks after the company presented the results of a randomized, controlled Phase 3 study showing that a booster dose given two months after…