Long story short: tell big cable corporations to stiff Fox News in upcoming fee negotiations, tell our CFPB your horror story concerning background checks and renting (if you have one), and tell our EPA to enact the most vigorous anti-mercury rules possible. Use the email/petition tools in the following paragraphs to communicate your will.
No Fox Fee helps you tell big cable corporations Charter, Cox, and Xfinity not to give in to Fox News’s insatiable desire for higher cable fees. As Angelo Carusone’s excellent analysis points out, our campaigns against Fox News advertisers largely haven’t worked, because Fox News extorts huge fees from cable corporations, fees second only to ESPN – and this also means that everybody pays a higher cable bill because of Fox News! However, Fox News has, ah, landed in trouble as of late, and so we have a golden opportunity to pressure these big cable corporations into standing their ground against Fox News’s bottomless hunger for higher cable fees. But only if we speak out.
Americans for Financial Reform helps you leave a comment with our Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (or CFPB) telling your horror story with background checks in rental housing. They’re looking to crack down on abuse in this area – on folks who do a background check on you without telling you, making you pay for said background check, charging you a higher rent based on your background check, among other things. None of this is cool, especially considering your background check might have mistakes in it! And seriously, to keep making people pay for mistakes they've already paid for – is a little more money worth the lack of mercy? Money you can't take with you, but mercy you can take to the Pearly Gates with all your other good works.
Finally, the Natural Resources Defense Council helps you tell our Environmental Protection Agency (or EPA) to strengthen rules preventing various forms of air pollution, including mercury pollution. As often happens with the Biden EPA, the most recent proposed EPA standards for mercury do improve the standards we’ve got, but they could be better – and the result would not be a “war on coal” as right-wing drama hounds constantly say, but fewer heart attacks, less cancer, and less brain damage in our children. Another result might be less money for big polluting corporation CEOs to gild the plumbing in their 19th vacation homes, but hey, this is America, where we all sacrifice for the common good, right?
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