{"id":98335,"date":"2019-06-21T01:01:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T23:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/06\/21\/major-global-investor-drops-us-firms-deemed-climate-crisis-laggards\/"},"modified":"2019-06-21T01:01:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T23:01:29","slug":"major-global-investor-drops-us-firms-deemed-climate-crisis-laggards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=98335","title":{"rendered":"Major global investor drops US firms deemed climate crisis laggards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legal and General Investment Management cuts companies including ExxonMobilAn ethical investment operation by the UK\u2019s largest asset manager has dumped shares in a string of US companies it has deemed climate crisis laggards, including oil giant ExxonMobil and insurer Metlife.Legal and General Investment Management (LGIM) said it had cut five companies \u2013 ExxonMobil, Metlife, Spam maker Hormel Foods, US retailer Kroger and Korean Electric Power Corporation \u2013 from its umbrella of ethical investment funds worth a total of \u00a35bn. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2019\/jun\/21\/us-climate-crisis-legal-and-general-investment-management\" target=\"_blank\">Major global investor drops US firms deemed climate crisis laggards<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legal and General Investment Management cuts companies including ExxonMobilAn ethical investment operation by the UK\u2019s largest asset manager has dumped shares in a string of US companies it has deemed climate crisis laggards, including oil giant ExxonMobil and insurer Metlife.Legal and General Investment Management (LGIM) said it had cut five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}