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Stay up to date on the latest news, valuable resources, and opportunities to take action with regular email updates. Windows 10 expires in 1 year, junking millions of PCs. Here’s how we pushed Microsoft to extend support for schools and why we’re advocating for more. The Biden administration has ...
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About. PIRG is an advocate for the public interest. We speak out for the public and stand up to special interests on problems that affect the public’s health, safety and wellbeing. PIRG President Faye Park talks to CBS news about toxic ingredients in children's makeup. All Americans want a healthier, safer, more secure future.
Health - PIRG
Health. Americans have the means to live far longer and healthier lives — and for the most part, we are. But we still face way too many threats to our health and well-being that are preventable, treatable or capable of being mitigated and solved. PIRG is working to ensure that food is grown in ways that are healthy and also good for the ...
Looking ahead: PIRG’s 2021 federal and state priorities
Dec 30, 2020 · Looking ahead, here is a list of public health, consumer, environmental and other issues that U.S. PIRG and state PIRGs will prioritize in 2021: PUBLIC HEALTH: Together Against COVID-19: The United States has lost more than 330,000 lives — about 1 in every 1,000 Americans — to COVID-19 in 2020. While more Americans get inoculated against ...
Consumer protection - PIRG
The PIRG Consumer Watchdog team is working to make sure consumers are informed and empowered to protect themselves in today’s rapidly changing marketplace. Our researchers are working to get rid of unsafe products and expose unfair practices, and we’re advocating for needed reforms to state and federal consumer protection laws.
Tell the FDA: A new food recall alert system could save lives
Nov 1, 2024 · Regulators should work with grocers and restaurants on ways to notify as many customers as possible, and develop an app and email notification system people could use to be notified about specific categories of recalls and alerts, such as for bacteria or certain undeclared allergens. We need a fully modernized food recall alert system.
Healthcare Price Transparency Could Save $1 Trillion Annually
4 days ago · In an open letter to the U.S. Senate, prominent economists, academics and business leaders cite data indicating that “25% of U.S. healthcare spending is administrative waste, overcharging, and fraud” and state that healthcare price transparency can save the U.S. healthcare system “approximately $1 trillion annually by ushering in a ...
Energy - PIRG
Energy. It’s time for our country to conserve more energy, use the energy we do have more efficiently, and produce energy in ways that are safe, renewable and better for our health and future. PIRG is working to end the subsidies that fuel the climate crisis and advocating for state laws to improve energy efficiency, protect ratepayers from ...
Briefing: What's at stake in Peoples Gas pipe replacement program ...
Peoples Gas installing a gas service line. This webinar will provide a deep dive into the history of the Peoples Gas pipe replacement program and the key issues surfaced in the Illinois Commerce Commission investigation of the program. The briefing will provide critical context one week before a draft decision in the case is published.