Community Harm
Conduct Screen Corporate Misconduct
Documented harm to specific communities from corporate operations — encompasses a wide range of localized impacts: toxic facility siting in environmental justice communities, industrial noise or vibration ruining neighborhoods (data center hum, factory noise), toxic waste dumps contaminating local water or soil, visual blight from commercial installations (billboard proliferation), displacement of residents, and systematic disregard for community health and safety. The test is localized, identifiable harm to a community from a specific operation, not diffuse environmental impact. Distinct from environmental_damage (which covers ecological harm broadly) and working_conditions (which covers employee harm).
22 companies currently excluded under this screen
Excluded Companies (22 total)
Showing 21 of 22 companies excluded under this screen.
| Ticker | Company | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| ATER | ATERIAN INC | Atterion operates an Amazon aggregator business model, which leads them to buy up a number of other small brands and operate in a decentralized fashion. This can (and in this case, has) lead to produc... |
| AVB | AVALONBAY COMMUNITIES INC | Equal Rights Center sued AvalonBay Communities Inc. for allegedly advertising bedrooms without windows, effectively blocking tenants who use subsidies. |
| BTDR | Bitdeer Technologies | Data center and mining facility footprint — excessive water draw for cooling, local power grid strain driving up residential electricity costs, industrial blight in host communities; burden on public ... |
| CCO | CLEAR CHANNEL OUTDOOR HOLDINGS INC | Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings Inc. agreed to pay more than $26 million to resolve SEC charges that it bribed Chinese government officials to obtain outdoor advertising contracts in violation of the F... |
| CEG | Constellation Energy | Constellation Energy reached a historic $340 million settlement agreement related to the Conowingo Dam, as advised by Jenner & Block. |
| CIFR | CIPHER DIGITAL INC | Data center and mining facility footprint — excessive water draw for cooling, local power grid strain driving up residential electricity costs, industrial blight in host communities; burden on public ... |
| CLSK | Cleanspark | Cleanspark is a bitcoin miner, which produces pronounced strain on local power grids and water resources. |
| CNP | CenterPoint Energy | CenterPoint Energy derives approximately 47% of revenue from natural gas distribution, serving over 4 million gas customers across Texas, Indiana, Ohio, and Minnesota. The company has committed $19 bi... |
| CRWD | CROWDSTRIKE HOLDINGS INC | A flawed configuration update to the Falcon sensor crashed ~8.5 million Windows systems globally. This resulted in the cancellation of over 5,000 flights on day one and paralyzed hospital systems (del... |
| DANGCEM | Dangote Cement | Investigative reports documenting systematic water contamination and environmental violations impacting host communities in Benue and Ogun States, Nigeria |
| DEA | Easterly Government Properties Inc. | Easterly REIT actively leases and profits from multiple properties to ICE featuring detention cells, crash-barrier fencing, and sally ports for immigration enforcement operations |
| EXR | EXTRA SPACE STORAGE INC | New York City's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection sued Extra Space Storage for bait-and-switch pricing, vermin-infested units, and junk fees, alleging the company violated false advertising... |
| HIVE | Hive Digital Technologies | Data center and mining facility footprint — excessive water draw for cooling, local power grid strain driving up residential electricity costs, industrial blight in host communities; burden on public ... |
| HLT | Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. | In Doe v. Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc., the court allowed claims under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) to proceed against Hilton, with allegations that sex trafficking... |
| IMO | Imperial Oil Limited | Sarnia refinery SO2 violations directly impacted adjacent Aamjiwnaang First Nation community; 11 documented unlawful releases 2019 violated Ontario Environmental Protection Act; community bears dispro... |
| INVH | INVITATION HOMES INC | The FTC alleged that between 2021 and June 2023, Invitation Homes charged consumers tens of millions of dollars in junk fees and engaged in deceptive pricing and unfair eviction practices, leading to ... |
| IREN | IREN LTD | Data center and mining facility footprint — excessive water draw for cooling, local power grid strain driving up residential electricity costs, industrial blight in host communities; burden on public ... |
| IRM | IRON MOUNTAIN INC | Iron Mountain paid $44.5 million to settle allegations under the False Claims Act that it overcharged federal agencies for record storage services. |
| LNT | Alliant Energy Corp | Ongoing coal ash leachate discharge (arsenic, cobalt, lithium, molybdenum) directly upstream of Ottumwa, Iowa municipal drinking water intake; Alliant proposed routing untreated discharge to Des Moine... |
| SPG | SIMON PROPERTY GROUP INC | Simon Property Group counterclaimed for a declaratory judgment that Cottonwood Mall is its private property, disputing public access rights. |
| WULF | TeraWulf | Data center and mining facility footprint — excessive water draw for cooling, local power grid strain driving up residential electricity costs, industrial blight in host communities; burden on public ... |
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