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For Immediate Release: 12/2/08
Bush Administration Must Release Research on Traffic Deaths Related to Cell Phone Use, Public Citizen Says
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is unlawfully withholding records that detail the relationship between driver cell phone use and traffic fatalities, Public Citizen claimed Monday in a federal lawsuit filed under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

For Immediate Release: 12/2/08
Bush Administration Must Release Research on Traffic Deaths Related to Cell Phone Use, Public Citizen Says
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is unlawfully withholding records that detail the relationship between driver cell phone use and traffic fatalities, Public Citizen claimed Monday in a federal lawsuit filed under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

For Immediate Release: 12/2/08
Institute of Medicine Report on Resident Work Hours Misses Opportunity, Fails to Endorse Significant Federal Oversight
Statement of Peter Lurie, M.D., MPH, Deputy Director of the Health Research Group at Public Citizen

For Immediate Release: 11/24/08
Study Reconfirms Dangers of Diabetes Drug Avandia; FDA Should Ban It
Statement of Sidney Wolfe, M.D., Director of the Health Research Group at Public Citizen

For Immediate Release: 11/20/08
National and Maryland Groups File Legal Challenges to Proposed Calvert Cliffs-3 Atomic Reactor
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Four environmental organizations filed a legal challenge late Wednesday against the proposed Calvert Cliffs-3 atomic reactor before the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). The filing, which is a formal petition to intervene in the NRC’s licensing process, marks the latest action in an ongoing fight to stop the proposed reactor before construction starts.

For Immediate Release: 11/19/08
Federal Court Should Reject Attempt to Identify California Apartment Critics Who Posted Anonymously on Web Site
WASHINGTON, D.C. – An attempt by two landlords to identify two dozen people who posted comments anonymously about the apartment buildings where they live is nothing more than an effort to intimidate critics and should be denied, Public Citizen and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California said in a federal court brief filed today in California.

For Immediate Release: 11/18/08
Bush Administration’s Rule Forces Truckers to Drive to Point of Exhaustion, Puts Motorists at Risk
Statement of Joan Claybrook, President of Public Citizen

For Immediate Release: 11/14/08
Fundraiser for Incoming Lawmakers Gives Freshmen An Inappropriate Introduction to the Influence of Money in Politics
Statement of Joan Claybrook, President of Public Citizen

For Immediate Release: 11/14/08
To Address Crisis, World Leaders Must Roll Back Radical WTO Financial Service Deregulation Requirements, not Push WTO Doha Round’s Further Financial Sector Deregulation
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Remedying the financial crisis will require significant changes to existing World Trade Organization (WTO) rules that lock in domestically and export worldwide the extreme financial services deregulatory agenda favored by the world’s banking and insurance giants that fostered the crisis, Public Citizen said.

For Immediate Release: 11/13/08
FDA Support of Heart Device Would Fly in Face of Sound Science
WASHINGTON, D.C. –A new clinical trial of a cardiac device that Food and Drug Administration advisory panels already have rejected is unlikely to yield convincing data, Public Citizen said in a letter sent today to the director of the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health.

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