On March 15, 2024, Berkshire Hathaway Inc announced that it has received a shareholder proposal from Scott Shepard, Director of the Free Enterprise Project of the National Center for Public Policy Research, requesting that the Company?s Board seek an audited report assessing how applying the findings of the Energy Policy Research Foundation 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 shareholder proposal at the annual general meeting of the Company scheduled to be held on May 4, 2024.