Posts Tagged: “price gouging”

To protect our health, tell the truth about the fossil fuel industry

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by BY LINDA RUDOLPH posted 03.02.2023

To counter industry propaganda and build support for the urgent action required, California must launch a creative, coordinated, aggressive, well-funded media advocacy campaign that connects the dots between the fossil fuel industry and its catastrophic impacts on our health and our climate. 

Needed: Protections for consumers from high-interest loans

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by CHRIS MCKINLEY posted 06.20.2019

OPINION: High-cost, extreme interest rates are having a detrimental impact on the financial stability and well-being of both credit markets and borrowing consumers. We strongly support Assembly Bill 539 (Limón) as the right approach for consumers to have a loan that is affordable and accessible while promoting a sustainable, healthy credit market for lenders.