The TriState Coalition The TRI-State Coalition for Responsible Investment (CRI) is an alliance of Roman Catholic institutional investors primarily located throughout the New York metropolitan area. TriState members utilize their power as shareholders to hold corporations accountable to social and environmental concerns.

Sister Pat Daly received BEN's Individual Achievement Award in 2009. Daly is a Dominican Sister of Caldwell, New Jersey and Executive Director of the Tri-State Coalition for Responsible Investment.
Ann Wright, Peace Seeker of the Year 2010 [07.30.10]
The Montana Peace Seekers Network is blessed and deeply privileged to name you, Ann Wright, as Peace Seeker of the Year 2010, as an expression of the deep respect, appreciation and honor in which you are held by the peace and justice community of ... [Read More]
EPA Correctly Rejects Petitioners Challenging Climate Science in Endangerment Finding [07.30.10]
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today rejected petitions from Peabody Coal, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Commonwealth of Virginia and others that asked the agency to rescind its scientific finding that heat-trapping gases pose a ... [Read More]
Obama's policy is a positive step for our seas [07.30.10]
Some say that the Deepwater Horizon oil-gushing disaster is Obama's Hurricane Katrina. Perhaps in response to that suggestion, President Obama signed an executive order last week to create a first-ever National Ocean Policy. [Read More]
Green Scissors Reports [07.27.10]
Since 1994, the Green Scissors Campaign, led by Friends of the Earth, Taxpayers for Common Sense and U.S. Public Interest Research Group, has been working with Congress and the Administration to end environmentally harmful and wasteful spending. ... [Read More]
The real scale of industrial pollution in North America is unknown because of national reporting exemptions and incomplete data, an international monitoring body says. [07.26.10]
The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) made the declaration this month as it published its annual online update of pollution data from industrial facilities across the continent. [Read More]
The KORUS: A Bad First Choice for Leftovers [07.26.10]
In fact, since Bush first pushed it, not one U.S. labor union, faith group, family farm organization or pro-environmental entity has yet to endorse or support the Korea FTA, or advocate for its passage. [Read More]
Victory! EPA Names e-Stewards Certified Recyclers as Route to Responsible Electronics Recycling [07.26.10]
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has now formally recognized the e-Stewards® Recycler Certification and associated e-Stewards® Standard for the Responsible Recycling and Reuse of Electronic Equipment. [Read More]
Gas leases and North Carolina landowners [07.25.10]
According to a June 26, 2010 article in the Raleigh News and Observer, companies are moving fast to sign up these mineral rights. Few landowners are getting legal advice before signing these contracts. RAFI will be working to get understandable ... [Read More]
Demand Release of Journalists Who Exposed Human Rights Abuses in the Cocoa Industry [07.25.10]
This past week, three journalists in the West African nation of Cote d'Ivoire were arrested and accused of stealing confidential documents after their newspaper, Le Nouveau Courrier, published the findings of a report into graft allegations against ... [Read More]
CODEPINK activist Diane Wilson may go to federal prison for Hayward stunt [07.21.10]
Diane Wilson is a feisty, 61-year-old former shrimp boat captain who was recently arrested at a U.S. Senate hearing for allegedly smearing herself with oil and repeatedly shouting at Tony Hayward, the former CEO of BP, as he spoke to lawmakers. [Read More]
The Fight Over Food Deserts -- Corporate America Smacks Its Way Down [07.21.10]
This June the City of Chicago approved Walmart's bid to open up dozens of new facilities, beginning with grocery stores in the city's chronically underserved South side. [Read More]
Russia Joins United States In Conceding It Will Miss CWC Deadline [07.21.10]
Russia has conceded it will miss by three years a legally binding deadline of 2012 for destroying its massive stockpile of chemical weapons, the top official overseeing compliance with the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), an international treaty ... [Read More]
Shell to Sea Activist Pat O’Donnell Released From Prison [07.19.10]
Large numbers gathered yesterday (Saturday July 17) for a rally outside Castlerea prison in County Roscommon to celebrate the release of jailed Shell to Sea and Human Rights activist Pat 'the chief' O'Donnell. [Read More]
Shaming the Corporate Cheapskates [07.19.10]
Buried among the many features of the financial reform bill passed by Congress is a provision that could get you a raise. For this to happen, however, you have to work for a large company that is uncomfortable with having it made public how little ... [Read More]
$96 for 50 hours of work? [07.19.10]
You might have read that EBASE and the Coalition for Clean and Safe Ports took our fight to fix the broken port trucking system all the way to Washington, DC this past spring. Thanks to your support, members of Congress turned up the heat on the ... [Read More]
Push to Regulate E-Waste in Silicon Valley [07.19.10]
Silicon Valley is the epicenter of computer innovation, but the "e-waste," the debris of Californians' high-tech lifestyle, gets exported to places like India, China and Nigeria, where the electronic scraps sit in open landfills, a source of income ... [Read More]
CIEL publishes Climate Change in the Work of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights [07.19.10]
Published in May 2010, the paper describes how the climate change and human rights issues have developed in practice, assessing its application in the work of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR).CIEL is a non-profit ... [Read More]
Should shareholder proposals serve as an early warning system for emerging risks and retail challenges? [07.17.10]
The socially responsible investment community views the shareholder resolution process as a vehicle for allowing investors to raise and debate issues that may eventually impinge on the corporate bottom line. [Read More]
Environmental groups sue Lower Colorado River Authority [07.17.10]
Three anti-pollution groups have accused the Lower Colorado River Authority of committing 10,000 violations against the federal Clean Air Act. [Read More]
Enviros Seek Shrimp Season Delay Due to BP Oil Spill [07.17.10]
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US House renews Myanmar sanctions [07.16.10]
The US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to renew for one year a ban on imports from Myanmar over alleged human rights abuses by its military rulers. [Read More]
Victory! Seattle to Begin Using Sweatfree Uniform Purchasing Policy [07.16.10]
The new policy requires sweat-free labor standards and a Code of Conduct for all bidders on City uniform contracts and makes a commitment to protections against slave labor, forced labor, forced overtime, excessive hours, child labor, below-poverty ... [Read More]
Victory! Americans Win Protection from Toxic Air Pollution [07.14.10]
Many American communities now living with heavy industry and toxic air pollution may finally get the chance for real protection from unnecessary health risks and environmental damage. [Read More]
CEI Launches the ReThink Alberta Campaign to stop the Tar Sands [07.14.10]
With the Calgary Stampede underway, billboards asking Americans to rethink their travel plans to Alberta rolled out across four major US cities today (cities that bring the most US tourists annually to Alberta) marking the first wave of a multi-year ... [Read More]
BP-Style Extreme Energy Nightmares to Come: Four Scenarios for the Next Energy Mega-Disaster [07.14.10]
The BP Gulf oil spill is not an anomaly but the result of industry-wide recklessness, as companies employ more and more risky methods to reach inaccessible reserves as the conventional ones run dry. [Read More]


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