Environmentalists and many officials in the affected states protested the decision, saying that there had been inadequate planning for the environmental and economic damage from a major spill.
When the then 7.30 Report was nationalised in the mid 1990s, states protested that coverage of critical local issues would be downgraded.
The F.T.C. tried to make it easier to understand, but it got the law wrong, said William Brauch, a special assistant attorney general and director of the Consumer Protection Division in Iowa, one of the states protesting the change.
But also remember that Tokyo's business culture is a lot less stiff than it used to beEurope: The battleaxes of Bratislava How Slovakia could scupper plans to beef up the euro zone's bail-out fundUnited States: Protests and potential Could the Wall Street protests reach tea-party levels?
Fact: Around 1830 five states protested federal land ownership, not in court, but by petitioning Congress arguing that it lacked the power to manage lands within a state after statehood.
This week, a group of religious sisters boarded a 12-person bus to travel across nine states, protesting cuts in federal government programs for the poor and highlighting their work on social justice issues.
Punk fans and members of Iraq Veterans Against the War and the Tent State protest groups walked slowly, singing and waving at passers-by.
In Greece, anti-state protest has its roots in the civil war of 1946-49 and especially the military dictatorship of 1967-74, when tens of thousands of students helped overthrow the junta.
With its undercurrent of anti-state protest, graffiti never has been very welcome in Russia.
Despite the oft stated protest refrains of "hands up, don't shoot," eyewitness testimony was at times in stark conflict about whether or not Michael Brown was surrendering or charging at the time of the fatal shot.
It is a role that breeds insurgency and anti-state protests.
