{"id":247814,"date":"2026-05-29T15:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/247814\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T15:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:27:10","slug":"some-validity-to-claim-investors-were-nervous-on-exxon-votes-say-nycs-garland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/247814\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Some validity\u2019 to claim investors were nervous on Exxon votes, say NYC\u2019s Garland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"716\" height=\"477\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2219355247-716x477.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"New York City skyline at sunset with Empire State Building\"\/><\/p>\n<p>New York City\u2019s assistant comptroller Michael Garland believes fear may have played a role in investors\u2019 voting at ExxonMobil\u2019s AGM this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Close to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.responsible-investor.com\/esg-round-up-article-9-funds-increase-exposure-to-aerospace-and-defence\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">quarter of shareholders<\/a> backed a proposal by the Office of the New York City Comptroller asking the US oil giant to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.responsible-investor.com\/investors-split-over-key-votes-at-exxon-on-retail-programme-and-texas-move\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">make changes to the retail voting programme<\/a> it announced in September, a high percentage for a first-time request.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City\u2019s assistant comptroller Michael Garland believes fear may have played a role in investors\u2019 voting at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[29454,30037,9,56,63,65,64,10315,30038],"class_list":["post-247814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-asset-managers","tag-esg-backlash","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-pension-funds","tag-voting-engagement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}