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applegrove

(118,589 posts)
Sun Feb 24, 2019, 10:49 PM Feb 2019

Exxon begs Trump's regulators to block investor demands to help stop climate-change

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/02/exxon-begs-trumps-regulators-block-investor-demands-help-stop-climate-change/amp/

Reuters

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Exxon Mobil Corp is trying to block an investor proposal that calls on the world’s largest publicly traded oil company to set targets for lowering its greenhouse gas emissions, two of the investor groups involved said on Sunday.

Exxon in late January wrote to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that the proposal, which is set for a vote at its May annual meeting, is misleading and an attempt to “micro-manage the company,” spokespeople for investors supporting the proposal said.

The Financial Times reported on the letter earlier on Sunday.

The Church Commissioners for England (CCE), the endowment fund of the Church of England, an institutional investor that supports the proposal, as well as New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, who manages the state’s pension fund that is pushing the proposal, both saw the Exxon letter, officials for both groups told Reuters.

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Exxon begs Trump's regulators to block investor demands to help stop climate-change (Original Post) applegrove Feb 2019 OP
"is misleading and an attempt to "micro-manage the company," Fullduplexxx Feb 2019 #1
How republican to piss all over the planet to please filthy Oil Money Achilleaze Feb 2019 #2
Clearly, They Don't Know... ProfessorGAC Feb 2019 #3

ProfessorGAC

(64,971 posts)
3. Clearly, They Don't Know...
Mon Feb 25, 2019, 08:08 AM
Feb 2019

...what micromanagement is.
Micromanagement of this issue would be shareholders telling them HOW to conduct business and operations to achieve the goal.
Participating in the setting of strategic objectives is not micromanaging!

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