On March 29, 2024, FirstEnergy Corp announced that it has received a shareholder proposal from The National Center for Public Policy Research request that the Board to seek an audited report assessing how applying the findings of the Energy Policy Research Foundation and similar studies would affect the assumptions, costs, estimates, and valuations underlying its financial statements, including those related to long-term commodity and carbon prices, remaining asset lives, future asset retirement obligations, capital expenditures and impairments. The Board should obtain and ensure publication of the report by February 2025, at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information. In addition, the Company urged the shareholders to vote against the proposal at its annual general meeting of shareholders scheduled to be held on May 22, 2024.