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Consumer Reports urges New York to ban insurers from using credit scores to price auto insurance coverage

Discriminatory practice penalizes New Yorkers with fair or poor credit with higher rates and makes coverage unaffordable for many Black and Latino drivers ALBANY, NY…

May 20, 2022

Money

Consumer Reports testimony before NY Assembly Insurance Committee on banning credit scores for auto insurance

Testimony by Consumer Reports before the New York Assembly Standing Committee on Insurance calling for a ban on the use of credit scores by auto…

May 20, 2022

Money

New York Fair Auto Insurance Pricing Coalition letter urging state lawmakers to ban credit scores to set premiums

Letter by the New York Fair Auto Insurance Pricing Coalition urging state lawmakers to ban insurers from using credit scores to determine how much drivers…

May 20, 2022

Money

Four infant formula questions for FDA Commissioner Califf

By Scott Faber and Brian Ronholm Several factors have contributed to the infant formula crisis we are witnessing now and, though the operations at Abbott…

May 19, 2022

Food

CR comments on EPA’s proposed rule to reduce air pollution from heavy-duty vehicles

Consumer Reports filed formal comments with the  Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regarding its proposed rule, “Control of Air Pollution from New Motor Vehicles: Heavy-Duty Engine…

May 18, 2022

EnergyCars

It’s time to ban toxic forever chemicals from food packaging

Food Safety News: It’s time to ban toxic forever chemicals from food packaging By Brian Ronholm, Consumer Reports and Liz Hitchcock, Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families…

May 13, 2022

Food
Press Release

Connecticut governor signs comprehensive privacy bill into law

Hartford, Conn. — Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed a comprehensive privacy bill into law that will extend baseline privacy rights to consumers, including the right…

May 11, 2022

Tech & Privacy

Consumer Group Coalition Letter of Support — S. 4145

Consumer Reports, 20/20 Vision, Americans for Financial Reform, Center for Digital Democracy, Consumer Action, Consumer Federation of America, National Association of Consumer Advocates, National Consumer…

May 11, 2022

Tech & PrivacyMoney

Consumer Reports Letter of Support to Commerce Committee on the STURDY Act and Reese’s Law

On behalf of Consumer Reports (CR), the independent, nonprofit, nonpartisan member organization, we write regarding two product safety bills the Committee plans to consider at…

May 10, 2022

Product Safety

CR letter to Senate Banking Committee in support of the Stop Overdraft Profiteering Act

Consumer Reports letter to the Senate Banking Committee urging members to support the Stop Overdraft Profiteering Act of 2022, which limits the number of overdraft…

May 4, 2022

Money
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