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2007-01-23
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A coalition of consumer advocacy organizations including the Texas Public Interest Research Group (TexPIRG), Texas Watch and Home Owners for Better Building, are calling on the Texas Legislature to enact legislation to relieve the plight of Texas homeowners. |
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2006-12-20
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NJPIRG Citizen Lobby, the Sierra Club, the IFPTE196 (Toll workers union), and Hands Across New Jersey announced a variety of concerns with privatization of any of New Jersey’s toll roads. |
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2006-08-08
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Later this month, the Student PIRGs will release their next investigative report about the college textbooks industry. |
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2006-07-11
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Massachusetts became the sixth state in the country to require tobacco companies to sell only ‘fire-safe’ cigarettes. |
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2006-06-15
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At Consumer Federation of America's annual dinner, the organization will honor U.S. PIRG Consumer Program Director Ed Mierzwinski with the prestigious Esther Peterson Consumer Service Award. |
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2006-03-08
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Advance America, which currently operates 101 payday lending centers in Pennsylvania, indicated this week that it will no longer be able to issue new payday loans in the state after March 27, 2006. |
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2006-02-07
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National Grid Plc. announced that they have agreed to buy out natural-gas distributor KeySpan Corp. for $7.3 billion in a deal that would create the third-largest energy delivery utility in the United States. |
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2005-11-04
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The U.S. Department of Energy’s federal standard-setting program has fallen more than a decade behind key legal deadlines and Congress and the Bush administration is failing to act on a federal energy plan that would help lower the cost of gas or promote sustainable energy solutions. |
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2005-10-11
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With heating oil prices skyrocketing, a record number of consumers are turning to PIRG Fuel Buyers for help in keeping warm this winter. PIRG Fuel Buyers is a heating oil cooperative that uses group buying power to negotiate better prices on behalf of over 1,100 households and small
businesses in the Delaware Valley.
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2005-10-11
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With heating oil prices skyrocketing, a record number of consumers are turning to PIRG Fuel Buyers for help in keeping warm this winter. |
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2005-08-03
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The “Dead Zone†in the Chesapeake Bay – an area so polluted no aquatic life can live because there is no oxygen - now covers one third of the Bay each summer. |
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2004-07-19
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The growing trend of federal preemption of state law threatens to limit the traditional role of states as the laboratories of innovative public policy, according to a new report by the National Association of State Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs). |
