Author: NYUP
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NYSBA Task Force on Global Warming Recommendations Pose Risks to Lower Income Consumers
A New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) Task Force on Global Warming has proposed measures that may be harmful to lower income consumers utility consumers. According to an article in […] -
TracFone Is Now New York’s Largest Telephone Lifeline Provider
According to data compiled by the Universal Service Administrative Company (“USAC”), the FCC’s administrator of universal service funds and programs, the SafeLink service offered by TracFone Wireless now has more […] -
FERC ALJ Finds Amaranth Trader Manipulated Natural Gas Markets
FERC Administrative Law Judge Carmen Cintron issued a decision January 22, 2010 finding that Amaranth gas trader Brian Hunter manipulated the settlement prices in the NYMEX natural gas futures markets […] -
New York City Closes ESCO Electric Service Sales Tax Loophole; Will Other Localities and New York State be Next?
Background – The ESCO LoopholeIn general, state and local sales taxes apply to electric and natural gas service. The state Tax Law provides that residential energy sources and services exempt […] -
Assurance Wireless (Virgin Mobile) Offers Wireless Lifeline in New York
Yet another wireless provider has launched a Lifeline reduced price phone service for low-income customers in New York. Virgin Mobile, which received its authorization to offer Lifeline in New York […] -
Activist Supreme Court Reaches Out to Limit Consumer Objections to Wholesale Power Rates
Yesterday the Supreme Court reversed a decision of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that had allowed states and consumers to challenge a deal establishing new […] -
Report: Verizon to Double FiOS Early Termination Fee
According to a posting in DSL Reports, Verizon will be raising the early termination fee (“ETF”) for its FiOS television and broadband Internet service to $360 on January 17th. This […] -
PSC Creates New Office of Consumer Policy
Effective earlier this month, the New York State Public Service Commission (“PSC”) created the Office of Consumer Policy and named Douglas Elfner to be its Acting Director. According to the […] -
Auburn N.Y. Municipal Water User Opposes City’s Motion to End Litigation Over Constitutionality of Termination and Denial Practices
In October 2008 a tenant user of municipal water utility service provided by the City of Auburn, N.Y. commenced a lawsuit in U.S. District Court challenging constitutionality of the City’s […]