Alabama Power, Georgia Power and Mississippi Power have been named to Site Selection magazine’s Top Utilities list for 2025, which honors American utilities for their work in economic development.
Each year, the Corporate Citizenship Film Festival provides companies with an opportunity to demonstrate how they have utilized video as a tool to communicate their environmental, social, and governance efforts. Sixty-eight entries were submitted into this year's festival, showcasing how companies are having a positive impact in communities on their corner and around the world. Community involvement, economic development, and environmental stewardship are just some of the topics which were touched on by the 2016 participants.
The St. Louis Green Business Challenge recently recognized the Bridgeton, Missouri, office of Trane, a leading global provider of indoor comfort solutions and services and a brand of Ingersoll Rand with an Award of Merit as a top performer for its adoption of green business practices.
Xylem (NYSE:XYL), a leading global water technology company dedicated to solving the world’s most challenging water issues, recently announced that it has been selected to participate in the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Smart Cities Infrastructure Business Development Mission to India, taking place from February 8 – 12, 2016.
An engineering class from Burrell High School in Lower Burrell, Pennsylvania was recently recognized for their efforts using STEM education to treat contaminated water in their community.
AccountAbility is pleased to announce that Ms. Amy Springsteel, Assistant Vice President of Corporate Responsibility for Voya Financial, has been appointed to the AccountAbility AA1000 Standards Board. Ms.Springsteel is currently the Director of Corporate Responsibility for Voya Financial, which rebranded from ING U.S. in 2014, a leading provider of retirement, investment management and insurance products and services. AccountAbility CEO, Sunny Misser, stated, “Amy is a very valuable addition to our Standards Board – she brings strong subject matter expertise, a sound understanding of the business world and an impressive network within the US, and globally. We look forward to working with Amy and the rest of the Standards Board.”
Republic Services, Inc. (NYSE: RSG) earned a score of 80 out of 100 on the 2016 Corporate Equality Index, a national benchmarking survey and report on corporate policies and practices relating to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) workplace equality. The Human Rights Campaign Foundation administers the annual scorecard. This was the first year Republic participated with the Corporate Equality Index.
The business landscape is reorienting itself and you can almost hear priorities shifting toward change-readiness and the bigger picture. And in this...
The business landscape is reorienting itself and you can almost hear priorities shifting toward change-readiness and the bigger picture. And in this...
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