Group Urges Caution on New Nuclear Plants
Iowa should not build more nuclear plants unless they produce power at a lower cost than other options, including energy conservation, the Iowa Public Interest Research Group said Thursday.
View ArticleRegulators Critize Nuclear Plant Cost Idea
Iowa utility regulators shared critisisms of Iowa's nuclear CWIP legislation, HF 561, that echoed the concerns of consumer advocacy groups like Iowa PIRG and AARP.
View ArticleMidAmerican gives an expensive sales pitch
Article by opinion columnist, Rekha Basu, with the Des Moines Register discussing the potential pitfalls of forceing ratepayers to front the bill for new nuclear power plants in Iowa. This article...
View ArticleConsumer activist, utility executives square off on Iowa nuclear plant bill
Consumer advocates and other activists squared off against electric utility executives and labor leaders today as an Iowa Senate subcommittee considered a bill that could pave the way for construction...
View ArticlePIRG Makes Another Call to Stop Student Loan Interest Rate Hike
As the clock ticks down to a student loan interest rate hike - Iowa PIRG, students, and financial aid officers from local colleges speak out on the impact to students and recent graduates entering the...
View ArticleHands off Muscatine County
Virtually everyone in the standing-room-only crowd of about 75 people who turned out to talk about Iowa’s energy future wanted the same thing — to stop MidAmerican Energy Company from building a...
View ArticleUnsafe food puts Americans at risk, new report says
Contaminated food sickened at least 17 Iowans in less than two years and cost the state more than $1.4 million, according to a new report.Those illnesses and costs were linked directly to food recalls,...
View ArticleTrouble in Toyland
We are about a month away from Christmas and before you hit those stores to find toys for the little ones there are a few tips you should take with you."The holiday season is an especially good time to...
View ArticleGroup tests 200 top toys, says dozen could be dangerous
A Dora the Explorer guitar, dragster cars with small wheels and finger-fidget desktop magnets are among the toys consumer advocates are warning about as the holiday buying season begins.
View ArticleCorporate wrongdoing should not be tax deductible
Although we seem to generally be on the road to economic recovery — my blood still boils when I think about the role big banks played in the mortgage crisis that drove our economy to the brink of...
View ArticleCredit Bureaus’ Deal to Improve Accuracy ‘Huge’ for Consumers
(Bloomberg) -- Buying homes, getting jobs and borrowing money will be easier after an agreement by the three biggest U.S. consumer credit reporting services with New York.[...] “It’s a sea change in...
View ArticleHow Companies Turn Your Facebook Activity Into a Credit Score
This story in The Nation explains our work challenging the way data brokers use "black box," or secret, algorithms to make scoring decisions that may violate the law and deny credit opportunities. This...
View Article12 of America's Biggest Highway Boondoggles
Given that expanding highways at great public cost doesn’t improve rush-hour traffic, there are better ways to spend this money, argue report authors Jeff Inglis of Frontier Group and John C. Olivieri...
View ArticleLATimes: Obama's consumer protection legacy defined by aggressive agency
[This weekend, the Los Angele Times chronicled President Obama's consumer protection record, with heavy emphasis on the history and fight over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB):]"[...]...
View ArticlePIRG Makes Another Call to Stop Student Loan Interest Rate Hike
As the clock ticks down to a student loan interest rate hike - Iowa PIRG, students, and financial aid officers from local colleges speak out on the impact to students and recent graduates entering the...
View ArticleHands off Muscatine County
Virtually everyone in the standing-room-only crowd of about 75 people who turned out to talk about Iowa’s energy future wanted the same thing — to stop MidAmerican Energy Company from building a...
View ArticleUnsafe food puts Americans at risk, new report says
Contaminated food sickened at least 17 Iowans in less than two years and cost the state more than $1.4 million, according to a new report.Those illnesses and costs were linked directly to food recalls,...
View ArticleTrouble in Toyland
We are about a month away from Christmas and before you hit those stores to find toys for the little ones there are a few tips you should take with you."The holiday season is an especially good time to...
View ArticleGroup tests 200 top toys, says dozen could be dangerous
A Dora the Explorer guitar, dragster cars with small wheels and finger-fidget desktop magnets are among the toys consumer advocates are warning about as the holiday buying season begins.
View ArticleCorporate wrongdoing should not be tax deductible
Although we seem to generally be on the road to economic recovery — my blood still boils when I think about the role big banks played in the mortgage crisis that drove our economy to the brink of...
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