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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsExxon 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 worlds 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 states 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
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Fullduplexxx
(7,851 posts)1. "is misleading and an attempt to "micro-manage the company,"
Oh the b.s.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)2. How republican to piss all over the planet to please filthy Oil Money
ProfessorGAC
(64,971 posts)3. Clearly, They Don't Know...
...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!