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Your credit usage may be to blame for high home and auto premiumsMoney Magazine August 2007 Issue In concurrent cases against GEICO…

Mass. Insurance Commissioner Plan Would Allow Discrimination in Sale of Auto Insurance

10 Consumer Groups Send Letter Denouncing Plan to Commissioner Burnes, Governor Patrick Massachusetts drivers will be unfairly denied auto insurance unless the…

Letter to Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner 8-1-07 RE: Banning the Use of Socioeconomic Factors by Auto Insurance Companies in Private Passenger Automobile Insurance

She’s hip to health insurance reform

Los Angeles Times Jerry Flanagan of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights is drafting an initiative that would give voters a…

At Your Service

Will Consumers Emerge The Winner When Telecos Duke It Out?Comstock's Magazine "If buildout is not fully required and robustly enforced, which it…

Appointee Won’t Protect Consumers

The week of Arnold Schwarzenegger's 60th birthday his advisors seem to be living in a 6-year-old's fairytale. The governor's spokesman told the…

Chevron’s profit soars in quarter

THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE (California) Consumer advocates have long suspected oil companies of manipulating prices, and this spring was no exception. The…

Experts wonder if cancer initiative promises too much;

Texans will be asked to OK funding $3 billion over 10 years for centerHouston Chronicle John Simpson of the California-based Foundation for…

Chevron profit hits $5.4 billion

Los Angeles Times Oil company critic Judy Dugan was quick to condemn the higher refining profits. "Chevron and the other major oil…

Still no answers on contamination of local firm’s onions

Ventura County Star (California) From the consumer's standpoint, the lack of information is disconcerting considering the number of food frights that have…

Chevron Record Profit Driven by Refining Profits Up 41% in US, 30% Overall, On Record Gasoline Prices;

Group Sees "Profit From Failure" in Oil Industry's Refining Records Despite Lower Production

When California Assembly member’s car is damaged, taxpayers pay to fix it

San Jose Mercury News (California) "That's the sort of thing that happens when you have absolutely no skin in the game, none…

Gov. Schwarzenegger’s Global Warming Act Called Hot Air;

Governor Fires Sawyer Then Denies ItRandom Lengths Mary Nichols, like Gov. Schwarzenegger, has a mixed record, as highlighted in an article by…

Record Pump Prices Give Exxon Record Refining Profits, More than $10 Billion Total Earnings;

Group Calls for Refinery Investigations, Oversight to Control "Hurricane Prices" After Exxon, Shell Profit Reports

The Green Haze is Lifting

Californians are beginning to see through the haze of the governor's green smoke machine. A statewide poll by the Public...

ExxonMobil makes $10 billion on record gas prices

But profit falls from last year on lower natural gas sales and doesn't top its previous record quarter.CNNMoney.com "Oil companies are making…

Stem cell patent skeptics also filed: Pair made claims like those under scrutiny

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Wisconsin) The scientists' past patent applications are not relevant to whether WARF's patents are valid, said John M.…

BP’s 2nd Quarter Refining Windfall Shores Up Lower Profit Elsewhere;

Rest of Big Oil Will Show Same Pattern Of More Money From Making Less Gasoline, Says Group