CSR News

BEIJING - July 17, 2008 - Alcoa (NYSE:AA), the world's leading aluminum company, and Zhengzhou Yutong Bus Company (Yutong), China’s largest bus manufacturer and the number two producer in the world, today introduced two new environmentally-friendly bus prototypes that will b...

LIVINGSTON, N.J., July 17 /PRNewswire/ -- JM Eagle, the world's largest plastic pipe manufacturer, announced today that it has launched a major initiative with Columbia University's Earth Institute to provide safer water to more than 11,000 of the poorest people in Senegal. ...

NEW YORK,NY. - July 16, 2008 - Intertek Sustainability Solutions has announced the release of the Ethical Sourcing Report 2008, featuring in-depth articles that address a top-down and bottom-up view of key ethical sourcing issues, comprehensive reporting on industry trends a...

News Highlights

• TNS Media Intelligence/Campaign Analysis Group says McCain and Obama campaigns are already spending between $250,000 to $300,000 per day on advertising. Campaign sites fail to indicate how this spending is offset with carbon credits or handl...

NEW YORK, July 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Georgeson Inc., the leading strategic proxy and corporate governance advisory firm, today announced that Limited Brands, through a special shareholder program, has raised $100,000 for Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the world's largest grassroo...

NEW YORK,NY. - July 17, 2008 - SustainableBusiness.com today announced its 2008 Sustainable Business 20 (SB20) List: The World’s Top Sustainable Stocks.

The SB20 list, in its seventh year, consists of 20 public companies that are leading the wa...

- July 17, 2008 "“ CSRwire: Innovest Strategic Value Advisors has upgraded its Intangible Value Assessment of Goldman Sachs based on the company's relative performance of social, environmental, and strategic governance (ESG) issues relative to sector peers.

BOSTON, July 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) announced today that it has received a $250,000 award from MetLife Foundation to support the MetLife Community Connections component of NEFA's National Dance Project (NDP). During the 2008-...

NEW ORLEANS, July 16 /PRNewswire/ -- The Entergy Charitable Foundation today announced the release of more than $1 million in grants to 68 organizations throughout Entergy's operating area. The grant awards bring to $3.1 million the amount distributed by the foundation so fa...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - July 16, 2008 - The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Business Civic Leadership Center (BCLC) today announced the election of Sari Macrie, vice president of corporate relations for Allstate Insurance Company, to serve as board chairman and Akhtar Badshah, senior d...