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Apache faces more investor activism
2014-07-23 15:18:15| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Houston-based Apache Corp. faces a new wave of investor activism with a New York investment firm announcing it has acquired a $1 billion stake in the energy exploration and production giant.
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Billionaire Expands Activism to Senate Races
2014-05-17 21:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Tom Steyer, the billionaire climate activist, recently contributed $5 million to a super PAC dedicated to keeping Democrats in control of the United States Senate, cementing his alliance with the party as the 2014 campaign swings into high gear. Mr. Steyer, a retired hedge fund manager, has used some of his fortune in an effort to make climate change a more potent political issue in pivotal states like Florida, Iowa and Virginia. He is planning to raise $100 million to run campaigns on climate...
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Hedge Funds' Interest in Hubbell Inc. (HUBA): Activism, Fundamentals or Both?
2014-03-26 21:46:02| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
HUBA ), which disclosed stakes as at the end of last year, are Anand Parekh 's Alyeska Investment Group, Jim Simons ' Renaissance Technologies and Ken Griffin 's Citadel Investment Group .
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An uplifting Girl Scouts lesson for all of us: activism works
2014-02-27 01:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: In a month saturated with dispiriting reports of recent human atrocity the vile slaughter at a Nigerian school, the nuclear-winter-style pollution in China, the killing of an unarmed refugee in an Australian detainment camp one story flickers in the gloom as a happy candle of human potential. The cereal giant Kellogg has signed up to some of the toughest environmental standards in the world in regards to its sourcing of palm oil. Used in many of Kelloggs products including the iconic breakfast...
Student Activism and the Civil Rights Movement
2014-02-04 16:05:06| Chemicals - Topix.net
In 1968, students and faculty protested on-campus employment recruiting by Dow Chemical Co.
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