November 17, 2013
Over the past quarter century, auto insurance expenditures in America have risen by more than 40 percent. Consumers in some states are paying 80 percent,...
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May 5, 2011
Health insurance premiums are increasing at a rate faster than medical inflation, especially in the volatile individual and small group markets, and worker incomes have...
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February 9, 2011
California produces more than four billion pounds of hazardous waste every year. That’s enough to fill 727 Olympic-sized pools. At least one hundred thousand businesses, from...
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February 1, 2011
Google has been a prominent beneficiary of the national home loan and foreclosure crisis of the past two years. The giant search engine company has...
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January 12, 2011
An ambitious quest for influence with the U.S. government is starting to pay off for tech giant Google, a Consumer Watchdog investigation has found. Read...
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October 12, 2010
A review of profit, shareholder and government reports from the last decade show that Valero reaped extraordinary profits from its refining operations in the Golden...
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August 27, 2010
Change is no simple matter in American politics-a fact that Americans have recently learned well. Elections rarely produce the change they promise. After the vote,...
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June 2, 2010
Google has been muscling into new web markets and greatly expanding its dominance of other web commerce sectors since 2007, when the web search giant...
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March 3, 2009
This handbook offers solutions for the most visible and perva- sive sector of the current oil/environmental crisis: transportation by automobile. Americans travel more than 3.5...
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June 10, 2008
Diesel fuel is the engine of American commerce and public life. Oil companies, by manipulat- ing supply, put sugar in the tank of a whole...
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June 6, 2007
Crude oil prices, gasoline prices, and consumer protection Read the report here.
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June 4, 2007
The oil industry is reporting second-quarter profits this week, and has signaled that refining profits will again be at record or near-record levels. Two consecutive...
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