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Florida Fights Back Against Bottled Water Extraction AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA "We are very pleased that the Gilchrist County Commission has decided to deny this permit," said Wenonah Hauter, executive director of the consumer advocacy ...

Third party candidates to be included on PA ballots Etownian - Elizabethtown,PA,USA Nader, 74, became well-known in the 1960s for his consumer-advocacy work in the automotive industry. He promoted government safety regulations and is ...

HairRemovalForum Introduces 'Live Chat' Feature PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA HairRemovalForum is a consumer advocacy website focused on providing in-depth information about hair removal treatments, costs, and service providers. ...

FDA catching flack for not issuing cookie recall WSFA - Montgomery,AL,USA Now the Food and Drug Administration is catching flack for not demanding a full recall of Koala's March cookies from a national consumer advocacy group ...

SOS for legal aid Asbury Park Press - Asbury Park,NJ,USA The shortfall will force staff cuts and result in less help for low-income people who need assistance with family issues, consumer advocacy and housing ...

Beware of Falling Minimum Payments By brahimbb17(brahimbb17) Consumer Action, a consumer advocacy group out of San Francisco, found that the number of card companies with a 2% minimum payment reached 53%, up from 43% just a year ago. Some creditors have even gone so far as to call this a ...

Florida Citizens Fight Back: More on Gilchrist Countyﾒs ﾓNOﾔ to ... By TC “We are very pleased that the Gilchrist County Commission has decided to deny this permit,” said Wenonah Hauter, executive director of the consumer advocacy group Food & Water Watch, one of the groups that opposed the permit. ...

Getting the Green on Cosmetics By Cathy Companies that have signed the Compact for Safe Cosmetics agree to six criteria set forth by the consumer advocacy group, The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, which tracks compliance with annual questionnaires and random checks. ...

Recently Watched: An Unreasonable Man By the almost right word In addition to these monumental movements, Nader also helped establish PIRG (Public Interest Research Groups) and Public Citizen, the most well known of his efforts which aims to engage in consumer advocacy, government accountability, ...

The Third Presidential Debate: Facts vs. Fiction By SBrinkmann ... experts are busy checking their statements and say both candidates were guilty of fudging the facts. According to at FactCheck.org, a non-partisan consumer advocacy organization for voters, the candidates were less than [...]

AG's Office Files Consumer Protection Lawsuit WFMZ-TV Online - Allentown,PA,USA Pennsylvania's top cop files consumer protection lawsuits against two Lehigh Valley companies. One suit involves trash. The other cash for car repairs. ...

Ready or not, here it comes Moneyweb - Johannesburg,South Africa Yesterday in Parliament, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) presented the Consumer Protection Bill (CPB) to the Select Committee on Economic and ...

Governor Rendell Signs 2 Bills, Vetoes 2 Others MarketWatch - USA Senate Bill 100 creates the Home Improvement Consumer Protection Act and says no person may present themselves as a home improvement contractor or perform ...

Consumer Protection Bill goes before Parliament Bizcommunity.com - Cape Town,South Africa The Consumer Protection Bill 2008, which will introduce principles of consumer protection and serve as a governing statement on consumer protection matters ...

Why Used Car Dealers Love John McCain Mother Jones - San Francisco,CA,USA In June 1997, Lott introduced the "National Salvage Motor Vehicle Consumer Protection Bill," which, despite the title, actually would have undermined ...

Toy safety highlighted on milk cartons WRNN - white plains,ny,USA The state Consumer Protection Board says the campaign is linked to a partnership with New York State Dairy Foods and its members. ...

Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act to Become Law By Alex Sicre(Alex Sicre) President Bush signed the Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Protection Act (HR 6353) on October 15th making it a law. Congrats to this administration for seeing this act through. Most people believe that online pharmacies are scams selling ...

Better protection for holiday-makers: European Parliament to vote ... Better protection for holiday-makers: European Parliament to vote on Timeshare (22nd October 2008)

Wellness - USDA, USDA, How Many Consumer Protection Programs Have ... Buyer Beware. At the end of September, the USDA quietly halted a program called the Agricultural Chemical Usage Program. The program’s purpose was to measure pesticide use in fruit and vegetable crops. Data from the program was widely ...

Consumer Protection from Unfair Tradings By tartanpodcast@gmail.com It’s not really an excuse to say your business didn’t know and it’s not an excuse for your employees to say they didn’t know. If you or your employees are interacting with the public on-line, you have to be transparent. ...

Delays in getting marksheet leads to compensation By ashish In an order than held that an educational institution, if it provides education or holds examinations, provides a service that is covered under the Consumer Protection Act, the Lucknow Consumer Redressal Forum awarded a sum of Rs. ...

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