The public interest group says that colleges and banks often make secretive deals allowing them to rake in millions from the fees.
Antal Desai with CMCG in Dallas and officials with several groups opposed to the private student loan industry as well as U.S. Public Interest Group.
Strategic growth is now subject to potentially devastating government enforcement, which can either trigger or be triggered by related shareholder or public interest group legal actions.
Plains Justice, a northern plains states public interest group, pointed out the first Keystone XL pipeline, which open last summer, was built with substandard steel from India.
The 540-square-foot animation was released by Consumer Watchdog on Wednesday, in an effort by the public interest group to highlight its concerns over Google on privacy and other issues.
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The paper successfully unveiled the Citizens for Fire Safety Institute, which had long advocated for flame retardants and posed as a nonprofit public interest group, as a front group funded by flame retardant manufacturers.
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If you're pushing the position that the rich should pay more to help fix the deficit, it doesn't quite follow to employ a tax dodge, says Dennis Kelleher, president of the Washington-based public interest group Better Markets Inc.
But Josephine Quintavalle, founder of the public interest group Comment on Reproductive Ethics (CORE) described the use of human embryos for therapeutic treatment as "quite horrifying, " and said that stem cell research should focus on the use of adult stem cells.
No, says Jon Golinger, consumer-program director of the California Public Interest Research Group.
But this is of little comfort to Coney, the privacy advocate with EPIC, a public interest research group in Washington.
They warned council leaders they would face public and interest group pressures.
But the gift prohibition can be circumvented easily, says Ed Mierzwinski, director of the consumer program at the U.S. Public Interest Research Group.
"They are not selling broccoli and spinach flavored products, " said Russ Haven of the New York Public Interest Research Group, which supports the New York bill.
"You'd be laughed out of the NRC if you asked to build one of these now, " says James Moore, of the Vermont Public Interest Research Group.
Just in time for the holidays comes this warning from the Ralph Nader-inspired U.S. Public Interest Research Group: Manufacturers are slapping too many warning labels on toys.
As many as 900 colleges are pushing students into using payment cards that carry hefty costs, according to the U.S. Public Interest Research Group Higher Education Fund.
"The first bank started surcharging in 1996 and within three years the other banks had followed, " Tracy Shelton, a lawyer for the New York Public Interest Research Group, told BBC News.
For some students, a prepaid card offered through a college may be the fastest way to receive student-loan funds, says Rich Williams, higher education advocate with the U.S. Public Interest Research Group.
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"In the past six years, there have been nine state senators who have lost in the general election but 11 have been arrested, " said Bill Mahoney of the New York Public Interest Research Group.
The New York Public Interest Research Group also said Tuesday it found more than 100, 000 violations of state campaign finance laws since 2011, including campaign committee failures to file accurate reports and no recent reports at all from 2, 328 committees.
"It's not the perfect solution, but it's a step in the right direction, and it buys us time to find a longer-term solution, " says Rich Williams, higher-education advocate at the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, a nonprofit based in Washington.
"Regardless of this firm's expertise on purely technical matters unrelated to policy formation, Ecology and Environment's participation in a trade association and lobbying effort in support of authorizing high-volume hydraulic fracturing in New York fundamentally disqualifies the firm and its work" for the DEC environmental impact study, Russ Haven of the New York Public Interest Research Group said in a statement released Wednesday.
The Institute for Justice, a nonprofit, public-interest-group law firm, recently released a report, "Public Power, Private Gain, " that documents how extensive the abuse of condemnation powers has become.
Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nutrition lobby group in Washington DC, said there was a lack of evidence.
Take the results of a 2012 survey from the Brennan Center: More than three-quarters of all respondents 77% agreed that members of Congress are more likely to act in the interest of a group that spent millions to elect them than to act in the public interest.
In this, the army is recognising that, although General Pinochet represents a past that it still defends, its future is as a modern force in a democratic society, in which it must compete for public respect and funds, like any other interest group.
An immigration deal came close on the Senate floor in 2007 but collapsed amid interest-group bickering and an angry public backlash.
Jacobson, the executive director of the nutrition advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest, said in a statement Wednesday.
The nonprofit advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest was one of the groups that released a report in September urging senators to pass the stalled bill.
To act in the public interest as a watchdog for criminality, stupidity, and group insanity of the kind we saw prior to the 2008 crash.
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