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Finally Buckyballs Magnets Get Their Just Desserts

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Public Health Advocate

The Consumer Product Safety Commission filed suit last Wednesday to stop the company that distributes the popular Buckyballs magnets from selling the product. This is a product that consumer advocates have been concerned about for years.

Public Health

Friday's Financial and other Congressional Follies

Friday, July 27, 2012

By | Ed Mierzwinski

Consumer Program Director

Yesterday the U.S. House passed a bill stopping all regulations designed to promote the economy, preserve the environment or protect health, safety and pocketbooks. Meanwhile, Citibank's Sandy Weill, the man who in 1999 convinced Congress to destroy the 1932 Glass-Steagall financial protections, has changed his mind.

Financial Reform

HR 4078 - A Bill that will Shutdown all Public Health and Consumer Safeguards

Friday, July 27, 2012

By | Nasima Hossain

Public Health Advocate

HR 4078 yesterday passed a floor vote in the House. If passed by Congress this bill will shut down the U.S. regulatory system as we know it. Two other equally hazardous bills are rolled into it, H.R. 4607 and H.R. 3862. Combined, these bills will halt or delay virtually ALL rulemaking and public health protections and do absolutely nothing to stimulate the economy or new job opportunities. They would shut down safeguards that Americans take for granted.

Public Health

Privacy Hawks Demand Info From Data Brokers

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

By | Ed Mierzwinski

Consumer Program Director

A bi-partisan group of members of Congress, led by the political odd couple of Reps. Ed Markey (D-MA) and Joe Barton (R-TX), have sent detailed information demands to a number of virtually unregulated data brokers. The firms buy and sell information gleaned from public record databases, social network sites and other sources; but unlike the Big Three credit bureaus, no one really knows what they are up to.