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Bankrate.com


Here are stories published today.

National mortgage rates for Feb. 3, 2011 | 2011-02-04

See rates from our survey of CDs, mortgages, home equity products, auto loans and credit cards.

http://www.bankrate.com/finance/mortgages/interest-rate-roundup-for-feb-3-2011.aspx?ec_id=brmint_newsalert_20110203

Home equity loan rates for Feb. 3, 2011 | 2011-02-04

Here are the average home equity rates from Bankrate‘s weekly survey of large banks and thrifts.

http://www.bankrate.com/finance/home-equity/national-home-equity-loan-rates-for-feb-3-2011.aspx?ec_id=brmint_newsalert_20110203

Focus paying debts that most affect credit | 2011-02-04

Pick the right order when you’re paying down debt.

http://www.bankrate.com/finance/debt/paying-right-debt-will-fix-credit-faster.aspx?ec_id=brmint_newsalert_20110203

CD rates for Feb. 3, 2011 | 2011-02-04

Here are the average CD rates from Bankrate’s weekly survey of large banks and thrifts.

http://www.bankrate.com/finance/cd/national-cd-rates-for-feb-3-2011.aspx?ec_id=brmint_newsalert_20110203

Auto loan rates for Feb. 3, 2011 | 2011-02-04

Here are the average auto loan rates from Bankrate’s weekly survey of large banks and thrifts.

http://www.bankrate.com/finance/auto/national-auto-loan-rates-for-feb-3-2011.aspx?ec_id=brmint_newsalert_20110203

Credit card interest rates for Feb. 3, 2011 | 2011-02-04

Here are the average credit card rates from Bankrate’s weekly survey of large banks and thrifts.

http://www.bankrate.com/finance/credit-cards/national-credit-card-rates-for-feb-3-2011.aspx?ec_id=brmint_newsalert_20110203

~ politics petitions pollution and pop culture

Dear Citi, You screwed up big time


In 2009, you helped push Citi to announce a “robust MTR Environmental Due Diligence Process,” giving hope that the bank would reduce its financial backing for mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining.

We’ve now discovered Citi’s mountaintop removal “due diligence process” is not worth the paper it’s printed on!

Join us in calling on Citi to stop funding mountaintop removal.  212 559 1000

MTR is a crime against America’s environment and people. Every day MTR coal corporations literally blow the tops off Appalachia‘s mountains: clear-cutting forests, wiping out natural habitats and poisoning rivers and drinking water. Not only are these mountains lost forever, but also the heritage and the health of families across the region are being sacrificed.

Last weekend, mountaintop removal mining company Alpha Natural Resources announced that it was purchasing Massey Energy, formerly the largest and most nefarious mountaintop removal company in Appalachia. Together, Massey and Alpha are responsible for more than 26 percent of all mountaintop mining in Central Appalachia. Citi is responsible for funding this toxic merger.

Join us in calling on Citi to stop funding mountaintop mining all together. 212 559 1000

Thanks for all that you do.

For the mountains,

Amanda Starbuck, Annie Sartor and Scott Parkin

Global Finance Campaign Team

~ politics petitions pollution and pop culture

Bankrate.com


Bankrate.com    Here are stories published today.

 How to get a credit consolidation loan | 2011-02-03

A credit consolidation loan can be a good tool. Here’s how to choose the right loan.

http://www.bankrate.com/finance/debt/how-to-get-a-credit-consolidation-loan.aspx?ec_id=brmint_newsalert_20110202

Bump up your credit score | 2011-02-03

How much of your credit card limit should you use? http://www.bankrate.com/finance/credit-cards/how-to-bump-up-your-credit-score.aspx?ec_id=brmint_newsalert_20110202

~ politics petitions pollution and pop culture

Tell Congress: Stop wasting taxpayer money on bottled water


During and after the State of the Union last Tuesday, President Obama and Congressional Republicans waxed poetic about the need to cut wasteful spending in Washington. Here’s an easy place to start:

According to Corporate Accountability International, Congress spent nearly $200,000 on bottled water in just three months last year. Recent studies estimate that bottled water costs almost 2,000 times more than tap water – even though the two types of water often come from the same sources.

Besides being a waste of money, bottled water is terrible for the environment: The energy needed to produce the plastic consumption is enough to fuel three million cars for a year. Nearly one million tons of plastic bottles are discarded as litter each year, ending up in landfills, lakes and streams. What’s more, public water infrastructure in DC and around the whole country needs all the support it can get— especially from Congress.

Tell Congress to stop wasting our money and end its use of bottled water. www.change.org

To sweeten the deal, DC Water (a local utility) has even offered to provide every member of Congress with a reusable water bottle as well as free water quality testing systems for Congressional office buildings.

When members of Congress complain about wasteful spending, they should curb their own bad habits first.

Sign this petition today to tell Congress to end its use of bottled water:

www.change.org 

Thanks for taking action,

Judith and the Change.org team

~ politics petitions pollution and pop culture

Vote Imminent: Senate Takes Up Health Care Law Repeal


 

We Can’t Go Back to Being at the Mercy of Insurance Companies

Call your Senators today and tell them to vote NO on repealing the health care law.

Call 877-667-6650

Yes, they are at it again. Are health care law opponents creating more jobs and helping our struggling economy, you ask? Nope, not until they have accomplished political priority #1 — scoring points with their base by trying to repeal the health care law, even though that would harm women’s health.

A vote in the Senate to repeal the health care law is imminent. Call your Senators today at 877-667-6650 and tell them to vote NO on repealing the health care law.

I know you’ve sent letters and called your Members of Congress in the past to tell them you support the health care law — but let me explain why we need you to pick up the phone again to protect this critical law.

Because of the health care law:

a mother who is diagnosed with breast cancer can focus on her treatment and not worry about whether her insurance company will drop her because she got sick;

a young boy who has type 1 diabetes won’t have trouble getting health care coverage because of a pre-existing condition or face a lifetime cap on coverage;

a young woman can go to her gynecologist and get a pap smear without a referral and without paying a co-pay.

Repealing the health care law will take away these important benefits — and more — that women and their families are already enjoying. It will also re-open the door to discriminatory insurance practices like charging women more than men for health care coverage and denying coverage to mothers who have had Caesarean sections and domestic violence survivors under the guise that these are “pre-existing conditions.”

Women and their families can’t go back to being at the mercy of insurance companies. Call your Senators today at 877-667-6650 and tell them to vote NO on repealing the health care law.

Please send a strong message of support for the law. Call your Senators today.

Sincerely,

Judy Waxman

Vice President for Health and Reproductive Rights

National Women’s Law Center