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Safer School Supplies: Shopping Guide
With this Safer School Supplies: Shopping Guide, parents, teachers, and students can make more informed decisions while shopping for school supplies this Back to School season. We want to give parents...
View ArticlePlugging In
The adoption of large numbers of electric vehicles (EVs) offers many benefits for cities, including cleaner air and the opportunity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Electric vehicles are far cleaner...
View ArticleA Citizen's Guide to Reducing Energy Waste
The future is here—but we’re living in the past.Clean energy from the sun and wind can provide for our energy needs without the global consequences of pollution, yet we’re still producing and consuming...
View ArticleA Simple Fix for a $17 Billion Loophole
Every year, corporations use complicated schemes to shift U.S. earnings to subsidiaries in offshore tax havens—countries with minimal or no taxes—in order to reduce their state and federal income tax...
View ArticleA Better Health Insurance Market For Oregon
New report from OSPIRG Foundation and Frontier Group details rising health care costs and federal disruptions to the individual insurance market; explores policy options to stabilize prices and expand...
View ArticleHighway Boondoggles 5
America’s aging roads and bridges need fixing. Our car-dependent transportation system is dangerous, harms our communities, and is the nation’s leading source of global warming pollution. And more than...
View ArticleOSPIRG 2019 Legislative Scorecard
OSPIRG compiled this scorecard as a tool for the public to know how their lawmakers voted on key public interest issues. This year, we scored the 12 bills.
View ArticleWhat are Oregonians Fixing?
Here in Oregon, we want to fix our stuff.Something breaks or doesn’t work right. You could throw it away, but you don’t want to be wasteful, so you try to figure out how to get it fixed.
View ArticleChain Reaction V
The Chain Reaction V report grades the top fast food and fast casual chanins on antibiotic use policies for their beef supply chains.
View ArticleThe State of Recycling National Survey
You toss your plastic water bottle in a recycling bin after coming home from a trip to the beach, hoping the plastic from that bottle will be in next year’s plastic bottle, right? It most likely will...
View ArticleSmall donors driving 2020 presidential race
U.S. PIRG analyzed the campaign finance reports from 2020 candidates. We found that small donations, and the people who provide them, have a significant voice in the presidential race.
View ArticleTrouble in Toyland 2019
Millions of parents, grandparents, and caregivers are preparing to buy toys for the loved ones in their lives. Luckily, these toys are safer than ever thanks to years of progress driven by consumer...
View ArticleFollowing the Money 2019
Citizens’ ability to understand how their tax dollars are spent is fundamental to democracy. Budget and spending transparency holds government officials accountable for making smart decisions, checks...
View ArticleThe Real Price of Medication
People living in the United States have access to some of the best medical care in the world, from life-saving drugs to cutting-edge surgical techniques. But our system is deeply flawed, with spiraling...
View Article2020 Legislative Agenda
OSPIRG's mission is to deliver persistent, results-oriented public interest activism that protects consumers, encourages a fair, sustainable economy, protects public health and fosters responsive,...
View ArticleFood Recall Failure
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that 48 million Americans contract a food borne illness yearly with 128,000 people hospitalized and 3,000 dead as a result of these illnesses. The food...
View ArticlePrice gouging on Amazon during the Coronavirus outbreak
Empty store shelves and out of stock signs are becoming more common in America as the Coronavirus reaches the nation’s shores. While many regions have yet to declare a state of emergency, a new...
View ArticlePutting Consumers First
U.S. PIRG Education Fund, the Student Borrower Protection Center and Consumer Action have released a report recommending that CFPB should use the full extent of its authority to take immediate action...
View ArticleOpen Safe Oregon
COVID Exit Strategy (www.covidexitstrategy.org), a non-partisan group of public health and crisis experts, has been tracking the progress states have made towards meeting the CDC recommended benchmarks...
View ArticleHospital Repair Restrictions
COVID-19 is putting incredible stress on the U.S. medical system, including the work of hospital biomedical repair technicians, known as biomeds or BMETs. These technicians are essential; hospitals...
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