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Alcan's environmental-health and safety program, EHS First, has resulted in a substantial reduction in injuries and illnesses, and improvements in our environmental footprint. We work with aboriginal peoples to provide training and employment in Australia and Canada and have a U.N.-recognized initiative in Cameroon, where we have reduced the AIDS level in our workforce and further taken the program outside the plants to help the entire community...
...recent years, Moss has taken that model global. In 2004 Macquarie bought the Asian securities operations of ING Barings, giving it more muscle to market its key infrastructure funds to retail and institutional investors. "The ING assets gave them a footprint in Asia which they didn't have before," says BT's Chemello. Macquarie subsequently went on a shopping spree. It invested in a South Korean toll-bridge project in Incheon for $64.6 million in 2005. Last December it bought a 40% stake in Taiwan Broadband, a cable operator in Taiwan, for roughly $200 million. A few months ago Macquarie...
...unleash $4.2 billion in community development block grants allocated for the city's rebuilding. And the candidates Mayor Ray Nagin and Lt. Governor Mitch Landrieu had largely managed to sidestep the most troublesome questions facing the city: whether it is realistic to rebuild New Orleans' entire pre-Hurricane Katrina footprint - a daunting prospect for a city hard-pressed to provide basic services for its drastically reduced populace - and how it will handle things if another major hurricane hit the city. Most important, Ray Nagin, whose political obituary had been all but written last fall, is still mayor, having coasted...
...hear a lot of fear that Ray Nagin is beholden to evacuees in Houston and elsewhere, and is he going to throw out the smaller footprint and restore New Orleans to [the size] it was," said longtime Louisiana political observer Elliott Stonecipher. But Nagin, who was a cable television executive before making his first run for public office in 2002, is a businessman, Stonecipher noted, who "knows that to literally restore the Ninth Ward, to literally restore New Orleans East, is of course not what we want...
...warming. "By doing what we're doing today you avoid the headline risks that are going to come for people who did not do anything," he says. "At some point businesses will be held accountable for the actions they take." Meanwhile, should Wal-Mart succeed at shrinking its environmental footprint and lowering prices for green products, both the planet and the company will profit. Sam Walton would have liked that. --By Daren Fonda. Reported by Steve Barnes/Bentonville, Rita Healy/Denver and Adam Pitluk/ McKinney...