Category: Global Warming
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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Johnson & Johnson CEO William C. Weldon Defends Pro-ObamaCare and “Cap-and-Trade” Lobbying
Washington, DC - Johnson & Johnson Chairman and CEO William C. Weldon agreed Thursday to disclose the exact amount his company gave to the drug lobby group PhRMA to promote ObamaCare, while Pfizer CEO Jeff Kindler said ObamaCare legislation adopted ...
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“Backroom Deal” TV Ad Campaign Targets John Deere for Lobbying for Cap-and-Trade; Urges Employees to Take Action to Save their Jobs
Today FreedomWorks and the National Center for Public Policy Research's Free Enterprise Project announce "Backroom Deal" - a joint television advertising campaign that urges John Deere employees to take action to save their jobs. The ads inform employees that Deere ...
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Climate Claims Could Raise the Prices of What You Buy, by Deneen Borelli
Climate Claims Could Raise the Prices of What You Buy by Deneen Borelli (bio) Mankind's advancement is blamed for heating the planet, but the proposal to stop the seas from rising and the glaciers from melting could cause an economic ...
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Project 21 Members’ Essays Published in New Freedom’s Journal Magazine
The March/April edition of the black-owned Freedom's Journal magazine features three essays from members of the National Center's Project 21 black leadership network. The issue, which has an overall focus on the problems brought by big government, includes commentary from ...
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GE CEO Jeff Immelt Exploits Reagan Legacy to Bolster Image with Conservatives; GE’s Celebration of Reagan is Politically Motivated, says the Free Enterprise Project
In response to GE's recent announcement of its sponsorship commemorating the Centennial Celebration of President Ronald Reagan's birth, today the Free Enterprise Project of the National Center for Public Policy Research is criticizing GE CEO Jeff Immelt for exploiting Reagan's ...
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