About The Free Enterprise Project
Launched in 2007, the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project (FEP) is the original and premier opponent of the woke takeover of American corporate life and defender of true capitalism.
FEP files shareholder resolutions, engages corporate CEOs and board members, submits public comments, engages state and federal leaders, crafts legislation, files lawsuits, makes proxy voting recommendations, and directs media campaigns to push corporations to respect their fiduciary obligations and to stay out of political and social engineering.
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Free Enterprise Project Staff
Steve Milloy, Executive Director
Steve Milloy
Steve Milloy is the executive director of the Free Enterprise Project, which pushes corporations to respect their fiduciary obligations and to stay out of political and social engineering.
Steve has been fighting against the use of agenda-driven bad (junk) science for more than 35 years. He is a biostatistician and lawyer by training, and has been an environment and public health consultant, securities lawyer, registered securities principal, investment fund founder and manager, coal company executive and nonprofit executive, as well as a print/web columnist on science and business issues. He sits on the boards of several not-for-profit organizations focused on energy, environmental and investment issues.
In 2005, Steve launched the first publicly-traded conservative activist mutual fund, called the Free Enterprise Action Fund, which pioneered the first pro-free enterprise and anti-ESG shareholder advocacy. As one of the earliest advocates of shareholder engagement on behalf of center-right investors and causes, he helped lay the groundwork and was the driving inspiration for what would later become the National Center’s Free Enterprise Project, launched in 2007. Steve Forbes noted at the time that Milloy hoped that such initiatives “could become counterweights to these anti-business activists” by advancing pro-entrepreneurial, pro-capitalist measures grounded in the principle that “good business is good social policy.”
Steve Milloy has authored six books and 1,000+ articles in major newspapers and websites including the Wall Street Journal, FoxNews.com, USA Today, New York Post, Washington Times, and many other print and web outlets. He served on the transition team for the Trump EPA during 2016-2017, developing the plans for overhauling how EPA does science. Nature magazine has called Steve “‘[p]erhaps the most influential climate science contrarian.”
FEP’s Top 10 Victories of 2021
FEP’s Top 10 Victories of 2020
FEP's questioning of Boeing's and General Electric's support for the Clinton Foundation helped trigger an FBI investigation into the Foundation's activities.
FEP's Employee Conscience Protection Project strengthened protections for the political beliefs and activities of over five million workers at 13 major U.S. corporations.
Just days after FEP's questioning of Disney CEO Bob Iger over biased commentary at Disney-owned ESPN generated significant media, including coverage by The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Reuters, USA Today, and Fox Business, ESPN issued new guidelines for political commentary by its on-air talent.
After Danhof questioned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the company's anti-conservative bias in its news feeds, the company changed its policy by removing humans in place of a more neutral algorithm.
Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes vowed to earn our trust after being chastised by FEP over CNN's proclivity for media bias and fake news. He promised to recommit to independence. Two weeks later, CNN fired three reporters involved in a false report about Anthony Scaramucci.
CNBC's Jim Cramer, Investor's Business Daily, and Motley Fool all questioned the wisdom of continued investment in Apple after CEO Tim Cook announced at an annual meeting that he didn't care about ``bloody ROI (return on investment).`` His statement came in response to questioning by our FEP over the company's support for regulation.
FEP personnel have been repeatedly ushered into private meetings with CEOs of some of the largest corporations in the world, such as PepsiCo.
After FEP appealed directly to then-CEO Alan Mulally to withdraw Ford from the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, a group that lobbies for stringent greenhouse gas regulations, Ford dropped its membership.
After FEP filed a shareholder proposal with General Electric over the company's foray into alternative energy programs, the company agreed to amend its corporate policies to only engage in green energy initiatives if the executives could identify a legitimate business purpose.
Under pressure from FEP, Google dropped its ``Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal`` campaign and also eliminated its ``green czar`` position.
