by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe California energy and gas prices are through the roof The average price for a gallon of regular gas in California Friday June 5, 2026 is $5.95 – nearly $6.00 per gallon! The national average is $4.22. Two [...]
Press Release National Center for Public Policy Research Free Enterprise Project (FEP) Shareholders Warn Alphabet That Its ‘Viewpoint Bubble’ Will Eventually Burst Washington, D.C. — At this week’s annual meeting of Google parent company Alphabet, shareholder activists with the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project (FEP) will call for an independent committee [...]
Press Release National Center for Public Policy Research Free Enterprise Project (FEP) Shareholders to Netflix: Prove ESG Isn’t a Virtue-Signaling Money Pit Washington, D.C. — At this week’s Netflix annual meeting, shareholder activists with the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project (FEP) will ask the Board to report on the profitability of [...]
Press Release National Center for Public Policy Research Free Enterprise Project (FEP) Washington, D.C. — The National Center for Public Policy Research, a shareholder of The New York Times Company, has formally demanded access to Times books and records to investigate whether the newspaper’s board of directors and senior management adequately fulfilled their fiduciary duties [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe California is not a sovereign nation, nor is it an island The California Air Resources Board approved amendments to the Cap-and-Invest program (formerly Cap-and-Trade) Thursday ignoring ‘The Stark Reality’ Driving In-State Refining Capacity to Zero of CA’s [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel In 1937 the French poet and philosopher Paul Valéry published “Reflections on the World Today,” in which he originated one of literature’s great lines: “The problem with our times is that the future is no longer what it was.” The line was perfected later [...]
Press Release National Center for Public Policy Research Free Enterprise Project (FEP) Investors Accuse Meta of Undercutting American Workers With H-1B Overreliance Research’s Free Enterprise Project (FEP) will allege that Meta’s overreliance on the H-1B visa program results in discrimination against American workers and indentured servanthood for many foreign workers. While putting forward Proposal 12, [...]
by Dimitris Papafotis NewsFire Economists and energy experts have lambasted Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D-CA) call to boycott Chevron, noting the state’s high gas prices are due to Newsom’s anti-energy agenda. This week, Newsom urged California drivers to avoid Chevron stations over Memorial Day weekend, citing high gas prices. He wrote: Californians, if you’re hitting the [...]
by Audrey Streb The Lion The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is pivoting from a long-contested chemical risk assessment program it notes Congress never authorized and critics say became a tool for targeting chemical facilities, including plants sterilizing medical equipment at the height of COVID-19. While the agency’s Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) program was launched in 1985 as an internal library of chemical safety assessments, former agency [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel This week the Senate finally confirmed the new director of the Bureau of Land Management, former New Mexico Congressman Steve Pearce. The firestorm surrounding his nomination a few weeks earlier has not yet cooled and probably won’t. The volume is louder than the situation [...]
