Louisiana-Pacific - 1792 Exchange

Rating Overview

Louisiana-Pacific is Medium Risk.

Louisiana-Pacific (LP) is Medium Risk. The company often yields to political activism in shaping corporate governance, potentially alienating consumers, dividing employees, and harming shareholders. LP implements race and identity-based policies that replace merit, excellence, and integrity with preferential treatment and outcomes. The company occasionally embraces corporate initiatives that redirect its central focus from business goals to partisan policies and divisive issues at times. This approach fails to safeguard free exercise, free speech, and free enterprise.

Rating Criteria

Corporate Weaponization Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Cancellations	Medium Risk
Discriminatory Philanthropy	High Risk
Employment Protection	High Risk

Corporate Weaponization ⓘ

Corporate Governance and Public Policy Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Advocacy Bias	High Risk
Funding	Medium Risk
Political Actions	Lower Risk

Corporate Governance and Public Policy ⓘ

Rating Criteria Detail

Criteria Risk Level Rationale

Corporate Weaponization

Criteria:

Has canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

Risk Level:

Medium

Rationale:

LP integrates ESG into its business practices. From its 2024 Sustainability Report: “We use our ERM framework to assess and prioritize organizational and ESG-related risks and integrate these risks into our ERM process” (1). However, the company has not publicly canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors based on political views or religious beliefs (2).

Criteria:

Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

LP will not match employee donations to “fraternal, religious, or political organizations” (1). The company likely uses Benevity as its charitable giving platform. Benevity vets charities according to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hate List, which includes mainstream libertarian, conservative, family, and religious advocacy organizations (2)(3)(4).

Criteria:

Employment policies fail to protect against viewpoint or other discrimination and/or are ideological in nature.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

LP appears to prioritize diversity over merit in its recruitment and hiring. From its Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Pledge for Action: “we pledge to do the following:… Broaden our recruiting and hiring outreach efforts to include more women, Black people, and people of color, offering a positive employment value proposition to join LP.
Increase the representation of women, Black people, and people of color at all levels of LP by fostering a career development focus on all people regardless of race or gender” (1). The company appears to prioritize diversity over merit in its supply chain. From its 2025 Sustainability Report: “At LP, our commitment to supplier diversity helps facilitate opportunities for businesses of
all backgrounds to engage with us. We leverage supplier diversity databases—such as those
managed by the National Minority Supplier Development Council, the Women’s Business
Enterprise National Council, and the Canadian Aboriginal and Minority Supplier Council—to
identify potential suppliers” LP is an affirmative action employer. “Commitment to Affirmative Action:
We take action across all job classifications to recruit, hire and train women, minorities, persons with disabilities and veterans in accordance with governing laws. LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to attracting, developing and retaining a diverse, high-performance workforce” (3). The company does not provide viewpoint protections for its employees (4).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy

Criteria:

Uses corporate reputation to support causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

LP supports DEI within its business practices. From its 2024 Sustainability Report: “Our Executive Team oversees our programs, policies, and initiatives related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI),
focusing on belonging, talent development, and compensation and benefits” (1). The company supports ESG within its business practices. From its 2024 Sustainability Report: “Reporting to the GCRC, LP’s ESG Executive Council (ESG Council) holds management
responsibility for our ESG initiatives. The ESG Council is comprised of members of our Executive
Team, including our General Counsel, Chief Financial Officer, and Senior Vice President of
Manufacturing Services” (2).

Criteria:

Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level:

Medium

Rationale:

LP was a Brass sponsor of Out & Equal (1). Otherwise, there are no publicly known cases of the company using corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies (2).

Criteria:

Uses corporate political actions and/or financial contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

LP has not used its PAC donations for ideological purposes and does not report on its lobbying at this time (1)(2)(3).