CSR News

In a continuing celebration of its 100th anniversary, Weyerhaeuser announced today a new, local "Sheltering the Community" partnership with Springfield-Eugene Habitat for Humanity and St. Vincent de Paul Society of Lane County, Inc. The collaboration will build two homes for...

GTE's national literacy program GTE Reads today earned the telecommunications company the prestigious Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership.

The award, presented by President Clinton this afternoon during ceremonies in the Whit...

Twenty years after the eruption of Mount St. Helens that destroyed 68,000 acres of its forest land, Weyerhaeuser Company is opening a new exhibit at the Mount St. Helens Forest Learning center to commemorate the rebirth of the forest surrounding the blast zone.

The Mead Corporation’s Coated Board division recently initiated a third-party audit of its forestry operations. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP conducted the audit under the American Forest & Paper Association’s Sustainable Forestry Initiative(SM) (SFI) (SM) voluntary verific...

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (NYSE:APD) had the best safety record of large-scale chemical manufacturers in the U.S. for 1999, according to Responsible Care® performance measure data recently released by the Chemical Manufacturers Association (CMA).* The company's freque...

Doug Daft, chairman and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company, today made a five-year $1 billion commitment to diversity in a comprehensive empowerment and entrepreneurship program for the U.S.

"This is a logical extension of our ‘think local, ac...

Weyerhaeuser Company’s Grande Prairie/Grande Cache Forestlands division has achieved certification to the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System (EMS) standard. Registration followed a thorough independent audit by the Quality Management Institute, a division of the Canad...

3M today announced it is phasing out of the perfluorooctanyl chemistry used to produce certain repellents and surfactant products.

The affected product lines represent about two percent of 3M's nearly $16 billion in annual sales. These i...

The Freddie Mac Foundation has made a three-year, $300,000 grant to the National Association of Counties Research Foundation (NACoRF) to help promote and replicate Healthy Families America (HFA) programs, a family support program of Prevent Child Abuse America (PCAA) proven ...

Bank of America was named the large business winner of the 2000 Family Friendly Business Awards last week in Tampa. The Family Friendly Business Awards were developed by Nova Southeastern University's Family Center of Tampa Bay. The awards selection committee is comprised of...