"the contractor building the repository is the same one that built Boston's troubled Big Dig highway tunnel" The Associated Press Senator Reid Sounds New Alarm...
"Twenty-two years ago, Congress amended the pension law to say that early retirement benefits of workers could not be taken away." The Republican, Monday, July...
"Congress has failed the American worker" Senate Passes Flawed Pension Bill, Allows Cuts In Vested Benefits, Undermines Pension Plans, According to the...
"We're dealing with high-level radioactive waste, probably the most dangerous substance on Earth" Bucks County Courier Times `Dry-cask' nuclear storage worries...
"All of the key players in the Senate knew that these cuts are wrong, wrong, wrong" Massachusetts Republican, Saturday, August 05, 2006 Pension reform bill...
"AT&T salaried employees, Citibank, and Duke Energy, are not directly affected by the decision" The Pension Rights Center Court Rules against Older Employees...
"doing contract work for Duke Energy" Ninety Six man dies from fall while trimming trees (Princeton-AP) August 8, 2006 - A man has died after he fell 50 feet ...
Duke, others ordered to turn over tapes in regards to California energy crisis Published August 9, 2006 by the Charlotte Business Journal Sempra Energy and...
Los Angeles Times Executive Pensions Could Raise Ire New SEC rules require detailed disclosures. The numbers may be shocking, experts say. By Kathy M. Kristof ...
"growing distrust of big business" Florida Sun-Sentinel - August 13, 2006 Distrust runs deep with this retiree By Ian Katz George Griffis wishes he could...
"the effects can be devastating since they have only accrued a modest pension" MarketWatch Understand the options if your pension is frozen BY MARSHALL LOEB ...
"until they change the rule-makers, nothing will get better for them" The Providence Journal Froma Harrop: Profiting from new serf mentality Sunday, August 6,...
"It cannot be presumed that the construction and operation of a repository at Yucca Mountain will ever occur" REVIEW-JOURNAL Letter: DOE Has No Legal Authority...
"Cinergy backed out of the agreement" Associated Press Ruling could hit Duke Cinergy loses appeal on pollutants; similar case faces Charlotte firm JOHN...
"a control rod slipped into the reactor core on Wednesday" Duke's Oconee 3 reactor slips to 18 pct Fri Aug 18, 2006 NEW YORK, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Duke Energy's...
Justice Report, August 18, 2006 Are High Gas Prices The Next Electricity Crisis? The California Energy Commission found this week that gasoline refineries...
"Fees are so significant that a young investor could give up close to a half-million dollars, or more" From the Baltimore Sun Look at fees under new pension...
"annual retirement payout at age 55 was slashed from $44,000 to $26,000" Long Island (NY) Newsday - August 20, 2006 Pensions are going, going . . . ...
Charlotte Business Journal - August 18, 2006 N.C. regulators urged to stick to their guns in Duke dispute by John Downey The N.C. Utilities Commission's Public...
"the plaintiffs could appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court" MarketWatch, Aug 21, 2006 Plaintiffs ask full court to review IBM pension decision By Jilian...
"Public employee pension plans are a financial time bomb in many states" New York Times, August 22, 2006 Public Pensions in Trouble Public employee pension...
"But industry hates it, and the administration has spent the last five years trying to get rid of it." New York Times, August 22, 2006 A Victory for Cleaner...
"they will consider an appeal directly to the Supreme Court if the en banc petition is denied." THE JOURNAL NEWS Plaintiffs in IBM pension case ask for judges'...
"they saw...too much organized power for workers in the region" The New Yorker THE RISK POOL by MALCOLM GLADWELL What's behind Ireland's economic miracle—and...
"The deeper prosecutors dig, the worse this latest scandal looks." New York Times Editorial Phantom of the Options Published: August 24, 2006 The corporate...
"The worker taken to Deaconess was transferred to a burn unit" Power Plant Injuries Due To "Hot Spot" Aug 24, 2006 14 News has an update on the power plant...
"Realistically, he is going to end up working longer" Pension Economics Point to Companies Freezing More Plans Friday August 25, 3:55 pm ET By Steven D. Jones,...
"Bank of America, based in Charlotte, North Carolina, disclosed in March that the IRS found its cash-balance plan violated tax laws." PricewaterhouseCoopers,...
"If that's what awaits the well-off, what about the rest of us?" If government slashes benefits, wealthy will take a big hit in their standard of living Rich...
"workers have reported more than 5,600 potential problems" Pahrump Valley Times Report says DOE not correcting mistakes PROBLEMS COULD CAUSE GREATER YUCCA...