2ndVote supports efforts of environmental stewardship and efficiency. However, many companies support extreme environmental groups that advocate for extreme environmental policies and over-regulation that stifles innovation and growth, like Cap and Trade. 2ndVote researches corporate sponsorships of environment-related groups that either endorse these policies or financially support organizations that advocate these policies and try to identify and encourage advocacy to more conservative alternatives that advocate for stewardship.
By: Elaine Fields, 2ndVote Contributor If you don’t favor having a small number of rich and powerful people forcing companies to act according to leftist, woke ideals, then you are not going to like ESG and woke “stakeholder capitalism.” Environment Social Governance (ESG) is the......
A recent Axios/Harris poll found a remarkable improvement in the public’s view toward almost every major industry since the pandemic began. The companies with the highest level of approval were the ones that consumers felt had addressed their needs during COVID-19, and 75 percent of......
The Black Lives Matter (BLM) Global Network Foundation becoming a project of the Tides Foundation should dispel any notion that BLM (2.01) is a nonpartisan group dedicated to nonpartisan solutions for racial and policing challenges. According to the Capital Research Center (CRC), this recent move......
By: Elaine Fields, 2ndVote Contributor The narrative on catastrophic climate change is based on the testimony of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which predicts catastrophic warming caused by CO2 emissions from mankind’s use of fossil fuels. There are, however, problems with the......
By: Elaine Fields, 2ndVote Contributor Purveyors of fear about climate change assert that warming will cause, and has already caused, harmful effects such as extreme weather events, melting ice, rising sea levels, and extinctions. They assert without evidence that the increase in temperature that has......
Last week, President Donald Trump and U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia moved to reduce Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) related corporate investments, leaving fund management companies and leftist media outlets infuriated. These companies and media outlets are afraid that without ESG investment policies,......
By: Elaine Fields, 2ndVote Contributor Based on our government’s push to transition from fossil fuels to solar and wind, we may assume a rapid transition to these “renewable” energy sources is both feasible and desirable. Proponents claim the technology has advanced rapidly, costs are low,......
Gasoline prices are nearly 20 years ahead of projections and that’s mostly to blame on the current administration. At every turn, Biden has imposed environmental regulations that only seem to make life harder for Americans, especially at the pumps. Read more here >> ...
Oregon State University is leading a research effort to develop a new rechargeable battery. The hope behind this new battery is to reduce the need for mining rare minerals like lithium and nickel. The process of mining these minerals has been proven to disrupt the......
Sixteen Republican governors sent a letter to president Biden urging him to reconsider new environmental regulations placed on corporations. The governors correctly pointed out that the “SEC’s congressionally directed mission is to protect investors, facilitate capital formation, and maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets,” these......