Buffett's Berkshire pressured to be more environmentally and socially responsible
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Warren Buffett defended the decision by Berkshire Hathaway to not put out reports from its many subsidiaries about how the company is addressing the risks of climate change.
Buffett claimed at the company's annual shareholder meeting in Los Angeles Saturday that Berkshire Hathaway (BRKB) already has a good track record for investing in renewable energy through its utility businesses and that it would be "asinine" to make all of its numerous business publish reports. The meeting was held online for the second straight year due to the coronavirus pandemic. It was broadcast online via Yahoo Finance.The US began pulling military equipment and additional personnel out of Niger on Friday after waiting months for the ruling military junta to approve US military flights into the country, two sources familiar with the matter said Saturday, ahead of a September 15 withdrawal deadline agreed to by the two countries.
The judge who oversaw Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial in New York on Friday informed the former president’s defense team and prosecutors with the Manhattan district attorney’s office that a comment was posted on the New York State Unified Court Systems’ public Facebook page last week by a poster who claimed to be a cousin of a juror, saying that Trump would be convicted.