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 [...]
Press Release National Center for Public Policy Research Free Enterprise Project (FEP) GE Vernova Shareholders Demand Answers as Wind Power Loses Steam Washington, D.C. — At this week’s annual meeting of GE Vernova shareholders, the General Electric energy spin-off will face harsh criticism about its sustainability goals from activist investors with the National Center for [...]
Press Release National Center for Public Policy Research Free Enterprise Project (FEP) JPMorgan Investors Ask: Is Sustainability Delivering Returns? Washington, D.C. — Ahead of this week’s JPMorgan Chase & Co. annual meeting, shareholders are urged to support a proposal from the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project (FEP) asking that the company [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder As Appearing on The Daily Caller The weed killer Roundup was recently at the Supreme Court, pitting trial lawyers against Bayer, the manufacturer of the widely used herbicide. The issue was whether congressionally mandated federal regulation of a pesticide pre-empts holding a company liable [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel One month after proposing to put a man on the moon, JFK said getting drinking water from the ocean would be “one of the great breakthroughs of history” that would “dwarf any other scientific accomplishments.” Californians have worried about water for decades. The Colorado [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe 'Women bear the brunt of climate change’ Climate change now impacts genders? According to State Senator Steve Padilla (D-San Diego), Climate change impacts gender. And according to Dr. Nancy L. Cohen of the Gender Equity Policy Institute, [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel The Wall Street Journal headline said “San Diego Now Has So Much Water That It’s Selling It.” The article said San Diego generates enough water to rescue Arizona, though that’s jumping the gun just a bit. No such deal has actually been finalized yet, [...]
