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Behind that bombshell shareholder vote at Costco

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Several institutional investors favored a resolution to reduce the company's greenhouse gas emissions, which passed with 70% approval

A Costco shareholder resolution over greenhouse gas emissions last month passed by a landslide, and it could mark the beginning of a wider campaign against food distributors’ practices.

Seventy percent of shareholders at the company’s annual meeting Jan. 20 voted in favor of the resolution, w

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