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Nissan settles class-action lawsuit claiming faulty brakes
2014-12-09 20:01:03| Automakers - Topix.net
Nissan North America has agreed to reimburse customers between $20 and $800 each to resolve a lawsuit alleging that defects in certain vehicles caused brakes to fail suddenly, according to court papers. The settlement agreement, filed on Dec. 5, would affect current or former owners of approximately 350,000 vehicles nationwide.
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Public Alert: Scammers Calling Portland Residents Claiming to be IRS
2014-09-16 22:20:20| PortlandOnline
The Portland Police Bureau has received two recent reports where victims stated that someone claiming to be with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) called them and demanded money for back taxes.
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Beck's US beer row intensifies as AB InBev fails to KO court case claiming German brewing deception
2014-09-16 11:34:55| Beverages - Topix.net
Anheuser-Busch lawyers have failed to KO a lawsuit brought by US consumers who claim the company misled them into buying Beck's by 'deceptive conduct' that suggested the beer was still brewed in Germany. In 2012 ABI moved production of Beck's sold on the US market from Bremen, Germany - where it has been brewed since 1873 - to St. Louis, Missouri.
Pro-fracking ad claiming UK suffered near-catastrophic gas shortage is banned
2014-09-03 16:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: An advert from US fracking company Breitling Energy, which claimed that the UK suffered from a near-catastrophic gas shortage last winter and talked up the benefits of shale gas, has been banned. The Advertising Stands Authority (ASA) received a complaint about the advert, which appeared in the Telegraph earlier this year, stating that the claims made were misleading, which has been upheld. The advert was addressed to citizens of the United Kingdom and suggested that shale gas estimates...
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Republicans are claiming the new climate rules will wreck the economy. Theyre wrong
2014-06-02 23:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Desk: Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced its much anticipated plans to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the source of about a third of U.S. emissions. It turns out the regulations will be pretty ambitious: a 30 percent decrease in emissions in this sector from 2005 levels by the year 2030 (though some say that is still not enough). Critics are out in force, of course, and their chief tactic seems to be economic alarmism. Earlier this morning, the front...
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