Consumer protection. – Page 2 – Pacifica Radio Archives

The Great rate debate / produced by Jim Berland.

Harris, consumer advocate and columnist for the Los Angeles Times, moderates a discussion on the ways and means of utility rate structuring with panelists Tim Brick, the Campaign Against Utility Service Exploitation; Howie Stover, Mayor’s Commission on Energy Pricing; and Ron Daniels, Edison Company official.

August 24, 2025

X-rays : more harm than good? / Priscilla Laws ; interviewed by Lynn Samuels.

Priscilla Laws, author of “X-rays: More harm than good?” (Rodale Press, 1977) is interviewed by Lynn Samuels. She talks about the overuse (and misuse) of radiation in routine medical and dental procedures and urges people to learn as much as they can about it before consenting to X-ray exposure. She ties this into larger concerns…

August 24, 2025