October 2015

October 28, 2015 In Updates

Public Justice’s Jim Hecker Testifies in Support of Proposed Stream Pollution Rule

Public Justice Environmental Enforcement Project Director Jim Hecker told a Senate committee yesterday that current federal rules governing stream pollution due to mountaintop removal mining are outdated and must be replaced by rules that “incorporate the best available science” and would successfully prevent “serious, persistent…

October 20, 2015 In Blog The Environment

An Energy Company’s Fake Farm, Watered with Heavy Metal Rain

An image from last week’s notice letter. By Richard Webster Staff Attorney, Environmental Enforcement Project Until I saw it, it was hard to believe that in the heart of Utah, PacifiCorp, a local power company, was running a fake farm watered with coal ash waste that…

October 13, 2015 In Blog

AIEG and Public Justice Join in Fighting Court Secrecy – We Need You in the Fight

Lee Brown, President, AIEG Arthur Bryant, Chairman, Public Justice The past year was unprecedented in the world of auto safety. The world learned of ignition switches that could fail, causing loss of control and airbag non-deployment; airbags that shoot shrapnel into the occupant compartment when…

October 7, 2015 In Updates

CFPB Proposes Barring Arbitration Clauses that Stop Class Actions

photo credit: plastic please via photopin (license) Potential change would open courthouse doors to tens of millions stripped of right to sue By Aidan O’SheaCommunications Specialist On Wednesday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed rules designed to prevent consumer financial companies from barring consumers’ ability to file, or join, a…

Public Justice’s Jim Hecker Testifies in Support of Proposed Stream Pollution Rule

An Energy Company’s Fake Farm, Watered with Heavy Metal Rain

AIEG and Public Justice Join in Fighting Court Secrecy – We Need You in the Fight

CFPB Proposes Barring Arbitration Clauses that Stop Class Actions