Harmful Soot Unchecked as Big Oil Battles EPA Over Testing: INSIGHT January 7, 2022 By Tim McLaughlin A deadly form of soot pollution from U.S. refineries has gone unregulated for decades because of a dispute between the...
NFL Owner Kraft Sued Over South Carolina Paper Mill’s Harmful Pollution August 17, 2021 By Tim McLaughlin A South Carolina paper mill, whose foul smell has triggered more than 30,000 complaints, has become one of the dirtiest...
Argo Shareholders Not Alone in Wondering About CEO Corporate Jet Use December 2, 2019 By Tim McLaughlin As U.S. corporate jet use approaches pre-financial crisis levels and chief executives take an increasing number of personal trips on...
Corporations Grow Nervous as Compensation for Directors Rises November 12, 2019 By Tim McLaughlin It’s nice work if you can get it. The average annual compensation for non-executive directors at S&P 500 companies rose...
Activists Push Big Index Funds to Back Shareholder Votes on Climate Risk Disclosure October 9, 2019 By Ross Kerber and Tim McLaughlin The far-reaching impacts of climate change on companies have investors pressing corporate leaders for action to minimize environmental damage and...
Fidelity Wins Court Battle with IRS Over Coal Tax Credits August 15, 2019 By Tim McLaughlin Fidelity Investments on Wednesday won its court battle with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service over tax credits for the production...
How Insurance Broker A.J Gallagher Cleans Up on Clean Coal Subsidies: Reuters December 5, 2018 By Tim McLaughlin Earlier this year, the chief financial officer of global insurance giant Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. explained to analysts how...
Insurers Deploy Drone Fleets to Speed Harvey Disaster Recovery August 30, 2017 By Karl Plume and Tim McLaughlin Fleets of commercial drones are primed to hover over the destruction from Tropical Storm Harvey in an unprecedented test of...
Harvey’s Insured Losses Hurt Insurers’ Stocks, Could Boost Reinsurers’ Prices August 29, 2017 By Tim McLaughlin and Tom Sims Hurricane Harvey’s whipsaw of wind and rain across Houston and the Texas Gulf Coast hurt the shares of U.S. property...
Bill Protecting Drivers Who Hit Protesters Dies in North Dakota February 21, 2017 By Tim McLaughlin A controversial North Dakota bill that sought to shield motorists from liability if they unintentionally hit a protester on a...