Bank provides college ID that doubles as ATM card
Colleges adopt new trend in banking, letting banks run student ID service. MASSPIRG urges caution.
View ArticleEnvironmentalists, businesses clash over bottle bill
BOSTON (WWLP) - 95 state lawmakers have signed onto an expanded bottle bill that proposes to extend the state’s 5-cent refundable deposit on soda cans to water bottles, sports drinks, and juice...
View ArticleWITH BALLOT QUESTION IN THE WORKS, LAWMAKERS HEAR BOTTLE BILL DEBATE
Proposals to expand the bottle deposit were before lawmakers on the Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy Committee for a legislative hearing. Frustrated with lawmakers, the bill’s supporters are...
View Article3 Boston area banks ranked among worst on complaints
New MASSPIRG Education Fund Report report ranks banks' record in generating and resolving consumer complaints.
View ArticleSovereign near top of regulator’s list of bank complaints
Two of the region’s biggest banks are near the top of a list of the most complained-about banks in the country.
View ArticleSmart Phones: Making Buses Cool Again?
Article highlights our report, "A New Way to Go: The Apps, Maps, and New Technologies that are Giving More Americans Freedom to Drive Less."
View ArticleJPMorgan should get no tax deduction in settlement deal
Taxpayers should not pay for corporate wrong doing.
View ArticleHazard toys highlighted in MASSPIRG report
Unsafe toys displayed at release of 28th anual toy safety report, "Trouble in Toyland."
View ArticleConsumer group draws attention to dangerous toys
MASSPIRG Education Fund displays dangerous toys while releasing 28th anual report "Trouble in Toyland".
View ArticleBoston's MBTA plan for later service is a welcome switch
Night Owl service is coming back! Beginning next spring, the MBTA will be running selected buses and trains util 3 a.m. on weekends.
View ArticleProposal to update state's bottle bill is moving on
Petition-drive organizers obtained more than enough signatures to send the Updated Bottle Bill to the state Legislature.
View ArticleSupport Legislation to Counteract Big Money in Politics
MASSPIRG calls for Citizens United reforms
View ArticleSupport Legislation to Counteract Big Money in Politics
MASSPIRG calls for Citizens United reforms
View ArticleStudents to Stop and Shop: Label GMO Food
Consumers call on Stop and Shop to label GMO food.
View ArticleThe bottle bill, again: Beacon Hill’s overdue deposit
Boston Globe calls for swift passage of Updated Bottle Bill! "THE LEGISLATURE’S repeated failure to strengthen the state bottle bill has become an embarrassing symbol of special-interest power ...
View ArticleConsumers should not be denied basic information of a GMO label
MASSPIRG argues why Boston Globe Editorial has it wrong on GMO food labels.
View ArticleThirty years later, they’re still pushing the bottle bill
MASSPIRG's Executive Director Janet Domenitz's career as political organizer and effort to update the Bottle Bill on the ballot this November.
View ArticleHazard toys highlighted in MASSPIRG report
Unsafe toys displayed at release of 28th anual toy safety report, "Trouble in Toyland."
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