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...turn prompted howls of outrage from academics who have been trying for years to get the food and restaurant industries to serve healthier meals. "The Center for Consumer Freedom is to industry what hit men are to the Mafia," said Yale psychologist Kelly Brownell, an obesity expert and frequent target of the CCF. He points out that the group is funded in large part by restaurants and food companies and run by Richard Berman, a public relations expert who made his reputation defending the tobacco industry...
...Just last month, another Equator Principles member, Credit Suisse First Boston, found itself the target of new global protests for its decision to underwrite Shell's controversial Sakhalin II pipeline in the northern Pacific, a project environmentalists say threatens the endangered Western gray whale. Without adequate transparency and monitoring of sensitive projects, ngos fear the Equator Principles will become meaningless. "What good is a series of principles like this is if you can't verify that they are being applied on a project-by-project basis?" asks Oil Change's Kretzmann. "Equator banks are saying to people 'Trust...
...increasingly important when they consider funding global projects. In the future, "the Equator Principles will be seen as a catalyst for how banks conduct themselves in other areas of their business," says ABN Amro's Burrett. If that happens, activists in haz-mat suits will have to find another target...
...Odland's target customers, he says, "It's sometimes assumed that people are coming to our stores for home or personal supplies. But our focus is on businesses." So noted. --By Jeremy Caplan
...grant, funded through the White House’s $15 billion fund for African AIDS relief, aims to treat 40,000 people in Nigeria in five years. The program is currently treating 7,300, and is well on its way to the first-year target of 8,000 patients, Skolnik said yesterday...