CORPORATE INTEGRITY PROJECT
NLPC promotes integrity in corporate governance, including honesty and fair play in relationships with shareholders, employees, business partners, and customers. In doing so, NLPC places special emphasis on the following:
- Asserting that the social responsibility of the corporation is to defend and advance the interests of the people who own the company, the shareholders. True responsibility is fidelity to one’s own mission, not someone else’s or someone else’s political agenda.
- Exposing the seeking of influence on public officials by corporations, which is the inevitable result of high levels of government spending and intervention in the marketplace.
- Combating practices that undermine the free enterprise system, including corporate giving to groups hostile to a free economy.
NLPC Rips Colgate-Palmolive at Annual Meeting for Clinging to DEI
NLPC presented a shareholder proposal today at Colgate-Palmolive Company‘s annual meeting of shareholders that asked the company to remove criteria related to diversity, equity and inclusion from consideration of board of directors nominees. The company’s board...
Google Just Paid $1.9 Billion in Privacy Settlements; Shareholders Should Intervene
It cost Google nearly $1.9 billion in privacy settlements over the past 12 months alone. Now Alphabet, Google's parent company, is asking investors to trust its internal AI governance — without showing them what it actually does. That choice goes to a vote on June 5,...
How Netflix’s Board Cost Shareholders the Warner Bros Discovery Deal
Netflix, Inc. entered 2026 with a deal that should have been the entertainment industry's defining transaction of the decade. By the end of February, that deal was dead, and Netflix had handed its biggest acquisition target to a competitor. NLPC has circulated to...
NLPC: It Shouldn’t Have Taken an Activist Investor to Hold PepsiCo CEO Accountable
National Legal and Policy Center today presented a proposal that calls for an independent chair of the Board of Directors at PepsiCo, Inc.‘s annual meeting of shareholders. The proposal would require the positions of board chair and CEO to be held by two different...
Walmart Shareholders Get a Rare Shot to Break the Waltons’ Lock on the Board
For 56 years since Walmart's 1970 IPO, every director seated on the company's board has been picked by one family. On June 4, shareholders get a chance to change that. National Legal and Policy Center ("NLPC") urges Walmart investors to vote FOR Proposal No. 5 — a...
NLPC: Dominion Energy Chair/CEO Robert Blue’s Incentives Produce Misguided Strategic Planning
NLPC presented a shareholder proposal today at Dominion Energy, Inc.‘s annual meeting of shareholders that that calls for an independent chair of the Board of Directors. The proposal would require the positions of board chair and CEO to be held by two different...
Moynihan’s Leadership Criticized; NLPC Pushes for Reduced Role at BofA Meeting
This morning National Legal and Policy Center presented a proposal at Bank of America Corporation‘s annual shareholder meeting that asked the board to implement a policy to require the Chair of the Board of Directors to be an independent member from the CEO. In other...
Time’s Up: NLPC Calls for Mary Barra’s Removal as Chair/CEO of GM
The bill has come due for the twelve-year reign of errors of Mary Barra (pictured above) at General Motors, and it's staggering: over $13 billion in strategic writedowns while she collected $29.5 million in compensation. National Legal and Policy Center now calls for...
Investors Should Be Able to Aggregate Votes to Break Benioff’s Grip on Salesforce
In late 2022 and early 2023, five of the most aggressive activist investors in the world took simultaneous positions in Salesforce, Inc.: Starboard Value, Elliott Management, ValueAct Capital, Inclusive Capital, and Third Point. The unprecedented pile-on produced two...
Coca-Cola Called Upon to Use Legitimate Science & Economics in Plastics Policies
NLPC presented a shareholder proposal today at The Coca-Cola Company‘s annual meeting of shareholders that asked the company to revisit its plastics packaging policies, to implement serious scientific and economic analyses instead of following environmentalism...
$381M in 3 Days: Meta Investors Should Demand AI Risk Disclosure
Meta Platforms is heading into its May 27, 2026 annual meeting on the heels of two jury losses that should change how investors think about the Company's artificial intelligence ambitions. National Legal and Policy Center is circulating an exempt solicitation report —...
NLPC Calls for Stronger CEO Accountability at Wells Fargo Annual Meeting
National Legal and Policy Center today presented a proposal that calls for an independent chair of the Board of Directors at Wells Fargo & Company‘s annual meeting of shareholders. The proposal would require the positions of board chair and CEO to be held by two...
DAILY SIGNAL: NLPC Calls Out Leftist Law Firms That Profited from DEI Audits
In a series of posts throughout the month of April, NLPC documented how top law firms dominated by Democrat activist attorneys reaped business from major corporations who wanted to make insinuations, or outright accusations, of racism to just go away. Here are the...
Why Is Exxon So Afraid of NLPC’s Proposal to Split Chair and CEO?
Exxon Mobil Corporation's 2026 proxy statement deploys language that public companies do not typically direct at their own shareholders (see page 116 and following). NLPC's shareholder proposal asking Exxon's Board to separate the offices of Chair and Chief Executive...
State Attorneys General Escalate Probe of Companies Over Collusion on Plastics
Previously we told you about an effort by several state attorneys general, led by Florida's James Uthmeier (pictured above), to investigate environmental advocacy coalitions focused on the reduction of plastics in companies' packaging, over alleged anticompetitive...
Chevron’s Loss on Hess Deal an Example Why Oversight of Wirth is Needed
When Chevron Corporation announced its $53 billion acquisition of Hess Corporation in October 2023, Chairman and CEO Michael Wirth (pictured above) called it the largest deal of his tenure — the strategic centerpiece of Chevron's growth plan, anchored by Hess's 30...
FINANCIAL TIMES: Shareholder Proposal Numbers are Down, But Not at NLPC
Last week the prestigious Financial Times reported that the trend this year for shareholder proposals that will reach company proxy statements and therefore be heard at annual meetings has fallen, due to efforts by the Securities and Exchange Commission under Chairman...
Plastics Industry Notes NLPC’s Upcoming Proposal for Oreo Maker
Earlier this month NLPC highlighted its "truth-in-plastics" proposal that will be heard at the annual meeting of Mondelez International, maker of snacks such as Oreo cookies and Ritz crackers, that calls upon the company to review its product packaging policies in...
#WeToldYouSo, But Last Year the SEC Wouldn’t Let NLPC ‘Tell You So’
Last week the Federal Trade Commission settled with three advertising agencies over their alleged collusion to exclude placement of ads with conservative-leaning news sites and social media, including Elon Musk's Twitter/X, via the now-defunct Global Alliance for...
We’ve Seen It Before: The Protection Racket That Corporate America Built
For the past two weeks NLPC has documented the racial equity audit industry: how companies under pressure from Democratic-aligned union investment funds paid former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder nearly $2,300 an hour at Covington & Burling to certify their...
Verizon’s CEO Should Never Be Chairman: A Case Study in Value Destruction
Verizon Communications shareholders face a critical governance decision at their May 21 annual meeting: whether to lock in an independent Board Chair policy that would prevent CEO Dan Schulman from accumulating additional authority. National Legal and Policy Center is...