Category: Environment and Enterprise Institute
Think-Tank Says Trained Chimp Can Predict Hurricanes Better Than NOAA… And Puts it to the Test
Washington, DC - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's track record in predicting the number of Atlantic hurricanes is so abysmal that a trained chimp could do better, says The National Center for Public Policy Research, a Washington, D.C.-based think ...
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Kerry – Lieberman Cap-and-Trade Legislation Rewards Wall Street and Members of President Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board
Washington, DC - Responding to the introduction of the American Power Act by Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), policy experts at the National Center for Public Policy Research are calling attention to the role big business and ...
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Political Contributions Proposal to Be Voted on at PG&E Annual Shareholder Meeting; Concerns over PG&E Lobbying for Cap-and-Trade Spurred Investor Action
Washington, DC - The fate of a Political Contributions Shareholder Proposal being offered by Shelton Ehrich at the PG&E shareholder meeting Wednesday is being carefully monitored by the National Center for Public Policy Research, which applauds efforts to bring greater ...
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Show Us What You’ve Spent to Lobby, and What $$$ You Expect to Gain, CEO Told
As predicted, Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers was on the hot seat Thursday as the National Center’s Tom Borelli and Deneen Borelli pressured him to reveal just how much money the utility expects to make from the global warming cap-and-trade ...
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Duke Energy CEO Asked to Disclose Amount of Company Support for Global Warming Activist Groups and Dollar Amount It Expects from Cap-and-Trade; Shareholder Activists Now Set to Attend Goldman Sachs Stockholder Meeting Friday in New York
Washington, DC - The National Center for Public Policy Research's Tom Borelli, Ph.D. and Deneen Borelli will continue their barnstorming tour of Fortune 500 shareholder meetings Friday when they attend the annual shareholder meeting of Goldman Sachs in New York ...
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Another Newspaper Covers Us; Notes Absence of the Left
Another newspaper, the Charlotte Observer, in a story by Bruce Henderson, has noticed that shareholder activism seems to be coming from the right these days: At their annual meeting Thursday, Duke Energy shareholders questioned CEO Jim Rogers about the company’s ...
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Reversal of Fortune: CEOs Now Take Flak from Right, Not Left, at Shareholder Meetings
From Thursday's Charlotte Business Journal, a piece by John Downey: After four years of criticism from anti-coal groups at Duke Energy Corp.'s annual meetings, Chief Executive Jim Rogers ran into flak Thursday in Charlotte from pro-coal forces that object to ...
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Duke Energy’s Support of President Obama’s Cap-and-Trade Policy to Be Challenged by Stockholders at Company Shareholder Meetings Thursday
Policy experts from the National Center for Public Policy Research are attending Duke Energy's annual shareholder meeting Thursday to challenge the company's aggressive support of President Obama's cap-and-trade policy. Duke Energy is a member of the United States Climate Action ...
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Is America About to Become Even More Dependent on China? by Caroline May
The Case for Domestic Rare Earth Elements (REEs) Exploration and Excavation China is already the largest holder of U.S. debt, yet if the pending “Hardrock Mining and Reclamation Act” becomes law, Americans could find themselves even more beholden to the ...
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General Electric CEO Challenged at Stockholder Meeting; Asked to Explain Extreme Attacks on Conservatives by GE-Owned MSNBC; About Company Lobbying for Cap-and-Trade; About the Cost of ObamaCare
Washington, DC - General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt was challenged on numerous national policy issues at General Electric's annual stockholder meeting this week. The questions from David Ridenour, Dr. Tom Borelli and Deneen Borelli of the National Center for Public ...
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