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July 29, 2009 Public Demand for Federal Whistleblower Protection Unparalleled ...

July 29, 2009 Post office cited by GAO as a troubled agency

WASHINGTON — The Government Accountability Office on Tuesday added the Postal Service to its list of high-risk federal agencies in need of change. The post office has been struggling with a sharp decline in mail volume as people...

July 28, 2009 Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke Town Hall Meeting Video

Video excerpts from the Town Hall event with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City on July 26, 2009.

July 28, 2009 Regulators plan hard look at energy speculation

Producers and big users of oil and gas are nervously watching as federal regulators begin examining ways to crack down on speculation in commodity markets. The study by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission begins with...

July 28, 2009 Executive Compensation Study on Tech100

DolmatConnell & Partners, a leading independent executive compensation consulting firm, today released its 2009 Tech100 Executive Compensation Study which examines the relationship between pay opportunities and actual payouts and...

July 27, 2009 Climate change: New study backs UN panel on ocean rise

The UN's climate panel has been backed over a key question as to how far global warming will drive up sea levels this century, a study published on Sunday says

July 27, 2009 U.S. Pay Czar To Rework Contracts Deemed High: WSJ

The U.S. pay czar is currently preparing to thoroughly examine the compensation at businesses receiving major federal aid, and will push to renegotiate packages that he views as excessive or seek other ways to reduce overall...

July 27, 2009 Bernanke voices anger at bailing out risk-takers, but says had to avoid 2nd ‘Great Depression’

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Sunday that he had to “hold my nose” over last year’s taxpayer-financed bailouts of big financial companies but argued that the action had to be taken to avoid a major meltdown of the...

July 25, 2009 Schumer Presses SEC for Ban on ‘Unfair’ High-Frequency Trades

Charles Schumer, the third-ranking Democrat in the U.S. Senate, asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to ban so-called flash orders for stocks, saying they give high-speed traders an unfair advantage.

July 24, 2009 Obama sends Congress plan to unwind problem institutions

Facing opposition to key parts of its bank regulatory reform package, the Obama administration on Thursday submitted a detailed proposal to Congress for unwinding systemically significant financial institutions so their collapse...

July 24, 2009 Business Groups: U.S. Faces ‘Green Trade War’ Over Carbon Tariffs

In a shot across the bow of climate change legislation, business groups have warned Congress that the U.S. risks starting a “green trade war” if tariffs are levied against carbon-intensive goods

July 24, 2009 Bernanke Missed Threat of Subprime Losses, Book on Fed Says

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke was slow to react to a worsening economy and losses on Wall Street in 2007 because he didn’t understand subprime mortgage defaults were the first leaks from a larger credit bubble,...

July 23, 2009 Green Century Balanced Fund is First U.S. Mutual Fund to Report its Carbon Footprint

The Green Century Balanced Fund announced today the results of its carbon footprint analysis, performed by leading environmental data and analysis firm Trucost. Based on measuring the tons of carbon emissions per million dollars...[more]

July 23, 2009 ICCR: Water Company Disclosure Is Murky, Investors Must Press for Major Improvements in Investor-Owned and Publicly Owned Utilities' Reporting

More than 15 water-focused mutual funds and exchange traded funds (ETFs) have been created in recent months, but most investor-owned water utilities have a long way to go in order to provide adequate environmental, social and...[more]

July 23, 2009 SEC Demands Ex-CSK Chief Forfeit Pay in Landmark Case

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, in the first case of its kind, demanded that CSK Auto Corp.’s former chief executive officer forfeit $4.1 million he received during an accounting fraud he didn’t orchestrate.

July 23, 2009 Dig the coal, bury the carbon

On the back roads near Edwardsport, Ind., jutting from a hillside carpeted with corn, a steel tower conveyer belt lifts from a mine below a black stream that spills out to become a growing mountain of coal.

July 22, 2009 MORE THAN 50 INVESTOR GROUPS, SOCIAL INVESTMENT FORUM URGE SEC TO REQUIRE ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL AND GOVERNANCE (ESG) DISCLOSURE

More than 50 major investment firms and professionals joined the Social Investment Forum (SIF) today in calling on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to help strengthen financial markets and foster sustainable business...[more]

July 22, 2009 New Report Says Advisors have Fiduciary Responsibility to Proactively Raise Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Issues with Clients

A group of asset managers, representing approximately $2 trillion in assets under management, say that integrating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations into investment decisions should be a legal...[more]

July 22, 2009 Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress

Aggressive policy actions taken around the world last fall may well have averted the collapse of the global financial system, an event that would have had extremely adverse and protracted consequences for the world economy. Even...[more]

July 21, 2009 The Carbon Trust - working for change: refreshing the carbon agenda

The soft drinks industry uses a great deal of packaging. But extensive reductions can still be made, says Gerald Corbett, chairman of Britvic and SSL. He tells Rupert Neate how the low-carbon economy is changing business, and why...

July 21, 2009 Tin ears of directors are finally getting tuned

Executive bonuses have been a major bone of contention over the past year as executives stockpiled millions while the stock prices of their firms plummeted. But there are signs that the tin ears of directors who signed off on...

July 20, 2009 Food products should carry 'water footprint' information, says report

The hidden amounts of water used in manufacturing food and drink products should be made known to customers, according to lobby groups

July 20, 2009 TARP Inspector Urges Treasury to Track Banks’ Aid More Closely

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner should press banks for more information on how they use the more than $200 billion the government has pumped into U.S. financial institutions, according to a new oversight report.

July 17, 2009 FACT SHEET: Say on Pay - US Treasury Regulatory Reform Agenda

Today, as part of its push for comprehensive regulatory reform, Treasury delivered draft "say-on-pay" legislation to Congress that would require all publicly traded companies to give shareholders a non-binding vote on executive...[more]

July 17, 2009 Buffett: Rock Star of American Capitalism

Warren Buffett's rock star status is evident from the fact that each year tens of thousands of fans from all over the world travel to Omaha, Nebraska, to listen to him speak at his company Berkshire Hathaway's shareholder...