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Coal companies get sweetheart deals on federal leases, shortchange taxpayers
2013-06-12 08:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: As if climate disruption, air pollution, health problems, and landscape destruction werent bad enough, here`s another reason to hate the coal industry: Coal companies are shortchanging U.S. taxpayers out of tens of millions of dollars they should be paying for the rights to mine federal land. A new report [PDF] from the inspector general of the Interior Department reveals that the Bureau of Land Management routinely underestimates the value of coal, letting companies like Peabody and Arch Coal...
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Bank sale 'should benefit taxpayers'
2013-06-10 01:01:31| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The government should offer taxpayers no-risk shares in the partly state-owned banks, RBS and Lloyds, according to a report.
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Taxpayers bearing the brunt of climate change costs
2013-05-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
WXXI: The impact and severity of weather events like the tornado that hit Oklahoma City earlier this week are increasing due to a changing global climate, according to research from the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC). We get more extremes everywhere, so really its climate disruption, the term global warming is not really the best term to use because what were seeing, and what were expecting to see from all the models, is a lot of extreme events. Not per se the number, but the extremity...
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Taxpayers cheated on wireless
2013-04-21 09:26:30| Wireless - Topix.net
Satellite TV provider Dish Network says it's thinking only of customers as it offers $25.5 billion to buy Sprint Nextel, the third-biggest U.S. wireless company.
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Senators to IRS: Don't snoop on taxpayers' private messages
2013-04-18 00:35:41| CNET News.com
A dozen senators, including Democrats and Republicans, want the IRS to pledge publicly not to snoop on Americans' Twitter and Facebook messages and other correspondence without a warrant. [Read more]
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