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Big Money to Big Oil

As the oil industry continues to collect record profits from high oil and gasoline prices, President George Bush is poised to sign into law an energy bill that allows the oil companies to pay even less in taxes and less in royalties for publicly-owned resources. Meanwhile, the new energy law will exempt the oil industry from several environmental laws, allowing even the most profitable companies to pollute our waterways and drinking water. Finally, on several issues that affect the oil and gas industry, the new energy law will wrest decision-making power away from state and local governments, giving it instead to more industry-friendly federal agencies. ExxonMobil, the world’s largest private oil company, could benefit handsomely from this flawed energy plan.

Report | CALPIRG Education Fund | Higher Ed

Affordable Textbooks for the 21st Century:

College textbooks have always constituted a meaningful portion of higher education costs. In the past two decades, however, the price of textbooks has soared to unprecedented levels.

Report | CALPIRG Education Fund | Higher Ed

Easy Money:

Since the Higher Education Act was passed in 1965, the nation has made enormous strides toward realizing the dream of equal access to a college degree. However, we still fall short of ensuring that every qualified high school student has the opportunity to pursue postsecondary education, regardless of income.

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Raising Risk

Although genetically engineered crops are still poorly understood, corporations and universities are growing them experimentally in the open environment with little oversight and public notification.

Report | CALPIRG Education Fund | Higher Ed

RIPOFF 101, 2nd Edition:

2nd expanded survey of the most widely purchased textbooks at 59 colleges and universities across the country. The 2005 survey also lookes at a number of industry practices not featured in the previous 2004 report.

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