Valero Energy, a San Antonio, Texas-based refining and gasoline retail company, is among the top five oil refiners in California, but is…
Oct 12, 2010The passage of a law means nothing to the lobbying industry. It only means refocusing on regulators, and if that fails, on…
Oct 11, 2010BP executives can’t seriously believe that this time they’ll get safety right. The company’s penny-pinching “safety be damned” culture is too entrenched…
Sep 29, 2010The level of straight talk in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece by HHS chief Kathleen Sebelius is breathtaking. Bottom line: Do…
Sep 28, 2010The insurance industry is going directly to the White House in its latest attempt to evade a key portion of the health…
Sep 23, 2010There’s a name that’s becoming as ubiquitous in dirty oil politics as Coke cans are in greasy spoons. And it’s pronounced like…
Sep 23, 2010It’s amazing how oil companies stay so completely on message. The American Petroleum Institute, the oil industry mouthpiece, is pushing the same…
Sep 16, 2010The way natural gas promoters talk about their pet fuel, you’d think it was green as clover and safe as baby oil.…
Sep 15, 2010Karen Ignagni, president of the health insurance industry's lobbying front AHIP, last week laid a portion of the the blame for a…
Sep 13, 2010A message Thursday from Health and Human Services chief Kathleen Sebelius is unusual not just for its tough language toward health insurers,…
Sep 10, 2010If you believe that health insurance companies will really go broke if they don't get 20% premium increases during a deep recession,…
Sep 8, 2010Mexico’s huge national oil company, Pemex, has shut down a large chunk of its natural gas fields because of the apparent kidnapping…
Sep 8, 2010Corporations are shoving all of the increased cost of worker healthcare, and more, onto their employees, says a new study. And that's…
Sep 2, 2010The new oil platform fire or explosion in the Gulf of Mexico looks minor in comparison to the BP spill, but there…
Sep 2, 2010At the shoe store, 40% off qualifies as at least pretty good. So why does regulators' approval of new, lower rates by…
Aug 25, 2010Wouldn't it be great if we could all deduct our federal income and investment taxes from next year's income? And if we…
Aug 19, 2010The worst definitely didn't happen in Seattle. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners deferred the worst insurance industry demands for weakening the…
Aug 17, 2010If there's one thing the National Association of Insurance Commissioners don't see much of, it's public attention. Now, however, it's got the…
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