The National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) is a polluter-funded anti-responsible investing organization that files shareholder resolutions opposing corporate responsible governance practices. While NCPPR is extremely active in filing anti-responsible investing resolutions, they have been wildly unsuccessful in getting them passed. In 2023, NCPPR filed 57 anti-responsible investing shareholder resolutions, with most garnering less than 2% of support from shareholders. NCPPR also has a long history of climate science denialism– employing former coal company executive Steve Milloy, “the nation’s most influential climate science contrarian,” as an Adjunct Fellow.
Misinformation. NCPPR is open about its denial of climate science. Its website says that one of its missions is to counter “those who disseminate misleading information about science relating to the environment, such as telling the public that the science is settled on certain issues when respected scientists disagree.” In 2014, NCPPR published a report claiming that “the world isn’t warming.”
Extreme Leaders. NCPPR also employs Steve Milloy as an Adjunct Fellow. Milloy, a former executive at coal producer Murray Energy Corporation, has been described as “the nation’s most influential climate science contrarian” who “has a long history of working on behalf of industry-led scientific misinformation campaigns.” E&E News described Milloy as someone who has “been taking discredited positions for two decades” and “done it gladly.” In early 1998, Milloy was also part of a team of representatives from the fossil fuel industry and conservative think tanks who secretly crafted a communications plan to try and convince “a majority of the American Public” that “significant uncertainties exist in climate science.”
Polluter Funding. The National Center For Public Policy Research has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding from fossil fuel interests. Since 1998, NCPPR has received $445,000 from ExxonMobil. They have also received funding from the American Chemistry Council — a trade association representing high emission producers of plastics and chemicals — who contributed $10,000 to NCPPR in 2012 and another $20,000 in 2016.
Fact: 71% of voters, including nearly 2/3rds of Republicans, support responsible investing initiatives. 79% of Americans believe that corporations have an obligation to address climate change and 82% of Americans believe that corporations have a responsibility to reduce and offset carbon emissions.