PSNH opposes power plants sale - Nashua Telegraph

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PSNH opposes power plants sale
Nashua Telegraph
But now they oppose the move and warn it would lead to higher costs for consumers, put at risk hundreds of jobs and more than $9 million in property taxes paid from these power plants. “Our customers today have the best of both worlds because they can ...
COMPETE Coalition Supports Divestiture of PSNH Power PlantsMarketWatch (press release)

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State Legislatures Looking to Eliminate Toxic Chemicals in Consumer Products - Patch.com

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State Legislatures Looking to Eliminate Toxic Chemicals in Consumer Products
Patch.com
In 2012, Massachusetts and 27 other state legislatures will consider bills that address concerns over toxic chemicals in consumer products, according to a new analysis by Safer States, a national coalition of state-based environmental organizations.

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Mortgage Deal Reached In 2008 Shows Pitfalls To Avoid In Current Settlement - Huffington Post

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Mortgage Deal Reached In 2008 Shows Pitfalls To Avoid In Current Settlement
Huffington Post
Five states -- California, Nevada, New York, Massachusetts, and Delaware -- left the negotiations last year over concerns that the deal would be too soft on banks and deliver too little to homeowners. To date, none of those states have rejoined the ...

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Transit advocates allege 'false choice' between MBTA fare hikes, service cuts - Wicked Local

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Transit advocates allege 'false choice' between MBTA fare hikes, service cuts
Wicked Local
... a staff attorney at the Conservation Law Foundation and a member of Transportation for Massachusetts, a statewide coalition of consumer and commuter advocates that includes the Environmental League of Massachusetts, the MBTA Advisory Board, ...

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The Spectre of Mass Consumer Education - LSMedia

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The Spectre of Mass Consumer Education
LSMedia
It will come as news to nobody that one of the coalition government's most controversial policy areas is higher education. All readers will be aware of the political drama in 2010, when tuition fees were raised, EMA cut, and an anarchically networked ...

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Vehicle lightweighting coalition targets mixed use of plastics, aluminum, steel - Plastics Today

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Vehicle lightweighting coalition targets mixed use of plastics, aluminum, steel
Plastics Today
By PlasticsToday Staff The Center for Automotive Research (Ann Arbor, MI) has launched the Coalition of Automotive Lightweighting Materials (CALM) to support efforts by auto manufacturers to aggressively down-weight vehicles to improve performance, ...

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MBTA under fire for alleged 'false choice' of service cuts and fare hikes - Taunton Daily Gazette

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MBTA under fire for alleged 'false choice' of service cuts and fare hikes
Taunton Daily Gazette
... a staff attorney at the Conservation Law Foundation and a member of Transportation for Massachusetts, a statewide coalition of consumer and commuter advocates that includes the Environmental League of Massachusetts, the MBTA Advisory Board, ...

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ATVA Ad Takes Shot at Rising Retrans Fee as NBC Streams Super Bowl XLVI for Free - Multichannel News

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ATVA Ad Takes Shot at Rising Retrans Fee as NBC Streams Super Bowl XLVI for Free
Multichannel News
American Television Alliance, a coalition of cable operators, other distributors, content companies and public-interest groups that opposes the current retransmission-consent regime, expressed its displeasure over the situation with Super Bowl XLVI in ...

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CAIF Co-Chair Elected - PropertyCasualty360

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CAIF Co-Chair Elected
PropertyCasualty360
By Staff Writer Sztuk is Hanover's national SIU strategist director and has chaired the Massachusetts Fraud Bureau (MFB). He will share Coalition leadership with incumbent co-chair Steve Perry, head of the DC Department of Insurance (DISB), ...

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A political tug-of-war over clean air - Arizona Republic

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A political tug-of-war over clean air
Arizona Republic
"The same issues we addressed on the task force back in 1997 are still here," said Barbara Burkholder, a public-health advocate and a board member of the Arizona Asthma Coalition. "And wherever I go to talk about it, I feel as though we're outnumbered ...

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