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Anthem Is Cutting Out-Of-Network Health Coverage in a ‘Bait and Switch,’ Lawsuit Says

On the first day of Obamacare open enrollment, a consumer group sued Anthem Blue Cross for attempting to automatically renew policies that no longer cover out-of-network costs for hundreds of thousands of Californians. A lawyer for Consumer Watchdog said Tuesday that Anthem was “railroading existing members into bare-bones plans” without properly disclosing the change to them in recent renewal …


Calif.’s Massive Methane Leak Highlights Crisis Across U.S.

As the massive natural gas leak in Aliso Canyon continues to pump methane into the air above Los Angeles, environmental activists are warning about a much bigger and more widespread crisis that is not drawing nearly as much attention: leaks throughout the nation’s oil and gas supply chain. A series of studies spearheaded by the Environmental Defense Fund beginning in 2012 found problems across …