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PIRG Makes Another Call to Stop Student Loan Interest Rate Hike

As the clock ticks down to a student loan interest rate hike - Iowa PIRG, students, and financial aid officers from local colleges speak out on the impact to students and recent graduates entering the workforce. If Congress does not find a solution by July, an estimated 255,000 students enrolled in colleges and universities across Iowa will shoulder an additional one-thousand dollards per year in school.

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Consumer activist, utility executives square off on Iowa nuclear plant bill

Consumer advocates and other activists squared off against electric utility executives and labor leaders today as an Iowa Senate subcommittee considered a bill that could pave the way for construction of a new nuclear power plant by MidAmerican Energy.

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MidAmerican gives an expensive sales pitch

Article by opinion columnist, Rekha Basu, with the Des Moines Register discussing the potential pitfalls of forceing ratepayers to front the bill for new nuclear power plants in Iowa. This article provides the "sales pitch" by MidAmerican Energy, but questions whether or not the "pitch" will or should hold the confidence of Iowa's consumers.

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Regulators Critize Nuclear Plant Cost Idea

Iowa utility regulators shared critisisms of Iowa's nuclear CWIP legislation, HF 561, that echoed the concerns of consumer advocacy groups like Iowa PIRG and AARP.

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Group Urges Caution on New Nuclear Plants

Iowa should not build more nuclear plants unless they produce power at a lower cost than other options, including energy conservation, the Iowa Public Interest Research Group said Thursday.