TPA Sends Letter to FCC on Accelerating Wireline Broadband Deployment

The Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) is pleased that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is moving forward with a rulemaking process to help evaluate whether action is needed to better allocate costs for pole attachments and replacements among providers attaching to poles and the owners of those poles.

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TPA Sends Letter to FCC on Accelerating Wireline Broadband Deployment

The Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) is pleased that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is moving forward with a rulemaking process to help evaluate whether action is needed to better allocate costs for pole attachments and replacements among providers attaching to poles and the owners of those poles.

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Op-Ed: As FDA flounders, the U.K. surges ahead with vaping

A new independent report by the U.K. government has recommended doubling down on vaping as a way of driving down smoking rates. While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration dithers and backslides on regulating products that it fully recognizes are far less harmful than smoking, across the pond they are talking of a “vaping revolution” with cross-party political support.

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TPA Opposes Misguided FDA Policy That Won’t Protect Americans from the Dangers of Tobacco Smoke

On Tuesday, June 21, The Washington Post reported that the Biden administration would issue a new ruling to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that would require tobacco companies to reduce nicotine content in combustible cigarettes to “minimally or nonaddictive levels.”

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