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“Do the Right Thing”

McKnight’s had the below article discussing CMS’s arbitration related proposals. A coalition of consumer groups and lobbyists, boosted by former U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), are calling upon the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to “do the right thing” and end pre-dispute arbitration agreements. AARP, the Fair Arbitration Now coalition and the National Consumer

Plantation Pipe Line Will Pay Penalty for Fuel Spills in Va., N.C., GA.

Release Date: 11/05/2008 Contact Information: DOJ -Andrew Ames (202) 514-2007 EPA- Roy Seneca (215) 814-5567 WASHINGTON-Plantation Pipe Line Company, Alpharetta, Ga., has agreed to pay a civil penalty and implement safeguards in order to resolve a Clean Water Act lawsuit over fuel pipeline spills in three states, the Justice Department, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and

Kinder Morgan Receives Corrective Action Order Re: Gulf Coast Mainline pipeline

Please read the following Corrective Action Order to Dwayne Burton, VP of Operations and Engineering, Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America, Kinder Morgan, Inc. from James Reynolds, Pipeline Compliance Registry Office of Pipeline Safety. It requires you to take certain corrective actions with respect to your Gulf Coast Mainline natural gas pipeline system.  

Landowners form a pipeline rebellion in the Deep South

Landowners in Georgia are upset by a Texas company’s plan to build a petroleum pipeline through the state When the letter arrived from a Texas pipeline company asking permission to enter his land, Alan Zipperer refused to allow surveyors onto his property. But they came anyway, he said, traipsing through his corn fields and pine

Kinder Morgan reaches safety deal

Transportation Dept. deal could cover $90 million in work By: August Cole; Source: Market Watch; Originally Published: 4.10.06. SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Following a government-ordered pipeline safety review last summer, Kinder Morgan Energy Partners is set to begin $90 million in safety work after reaching a deal with the Transportation Department. The Houston-based company KMP,

Kinder Morgan Paid Pennsylvania Police Department to ‘Deter Protests’

ACLU calls arrangement “flat out unconstitutional” Between June and October 2013, Kinder Morgan, the largest energy infrastructure company in North America, paid a local Pennsylvania police department more than $50,000 to patrol a controversial pipeline upgrade. The company requested that the officers, though officially off-duty, be in uniform and marked cars. Kinder Morgan’s aim, according

$15 Million Awarded in Highway Collision

$42 Million Given Back for over 8,000 Investors

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$2.32 Million in “Unprecedented” Jury Award Against Nuisance Landfill

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