EPA Flooded With Complaints on User Fees
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It's hard to find anyone who likes the Environmental Protection Agency' s new proposal to make permit holders pay for more of the cost of managing pollutants discharged into the nation's waterways.
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States from Alabama to Wyoming collected such low fees from major polluters that they may have shortchanged efforts to fight air pollution by up to $50 million, an environmental group reported on Wednesday.
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By The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Sep. 21--What started out as a simple dredging proposal to improve navigation at the base of Budd Inlet has turned into a costly need to clean up chemical contamination in the inlet.
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A U.K. consumer watchdog office is investigating claims of unfair pricing practices.
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Payment to resolve allegations pharmaceutical firm overcharged government for top drugs.
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Cell phone customers are increasingly complaining--and suing--over mysterious, hard-to-cancel charges on their monthly bills.
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Proposed new U.S. fee increases would make it a lot more expensive for immigrants to become citizens, a report said.  Among its proposals is one to raise the application fee for U.S.
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By Alexis Grant, Houston Chronicle May 31--Houston households could see a new charge on their monthly water bills starting this fall -- a $2.25 fee to help the city adopt more environment-friendly waste practices -- but payment would be optional.
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The Consumer Association has today complained to the UKâs Office of Fair Trading that downloading tracks from Appleâs iTunes costs UK consumers more than their counterparts in France and Germany.
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Microsoft's Windows support forum found a throng of users yesterday complaining of their Windows Live OneCare subscriptions inexplicably showing up as having been terminated.
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A BRITISH consumer has complained to government regulators about the cost of downloading music from Apple&#39;s iTunes Music Store.
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Dissatisfied with the agency's greenhouse-gas emissions program, labor leaders are pleading for congressional intervention.
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A consumer&#39;s group said Wednesday it has complained to government regulators about the cost of downloading music from Apple&#39;s iTunes system.
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From the EPA to the Park Service, whistleblowers raise policy questions in a tense election year.
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A maneuver called 'splash and dash' cost US taxpayers perhaps $30 million last year, but the charges are rising fast.
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WASHINGTON -- An Environmental Protection Agency report charging that the agency undermined its own lawsuits against air polluters by changing key regulations was praised Friday by environmentalists and condemned by industry groups and the EPA itself.
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A Nasdaq plan to increase listing fees while simultaneously offering more services has enraged some companies and raised antitrust concerns.