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DOE should strengthen energy efficiency requirements to reduce costs, emissions
Consumer Action asked the Department of Energy to further strengthen energy-efficiency requirements for the largest water heaters, reducing both heating costs for consumers and global warming emissions.

Reconsider FCC media ownership rule change
Consumer Action joined in a letter to the Federal Communications Commission asking that the recently revised newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership rule be reconsidered. In December the FCC overturned a 32-year-old ban on cross ownership to allow broadcasters in the nation's 20 largest media markets to also own a newspaper.

DTV Transition: Are you ready?
If you currently receive free TV over the air using an antenna and an older analog TV set, you’ll need to get a converter box by Feb. 17, 2009 so that you can continue to watch TV. If you have "pay" TV from a cable, satellite or phone company, you don't need to do anything.

Digital TV rules lack public benefit, say groups
Leading organizations involved in communications advocacy filed comments with the Federal Communication Commission asking it to hold broadcasters to their public interest obligations in the digital age. Broadcasters treat the public airwaves as personal property, but our airwaves are a valuable commodity owned by the American public.