Blog

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Mac Dressman
Transform Transportation, Associate

Spending on new highways is wasteful and destructive. America needs to repair what we have instead of spending on new highways.

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Sydney Riess
Stop the Overuse of Antibiotics, Associate

The conventional system of livestock production in the United States hinges on one word: “efficiency.” Time is money, therefore the faster animals progress from birth to slaughter, the cheaper the end product will be. While cost-conscious shoppers appreciate low prices at the meat counter, there is a steep, somewhat-hidden, societal cost to raising animals in the conventional way.  

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Henry Hintermeister
Creative Associate

Nearly 70 percent of surveyed retailers showed improvement in their chemical safety programs over the last five years.

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Faye Park
President, U.S. PIRG; Executive Vice President, The Public Interest Network

This pandemic year intensified both our waste generation and our grasp of its unsustainability.

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Matt Casale
Director, Environment Campaigns

Our new progress report finds that despite the need to rebuild many federal agencies and tackle the COVID-19 crisis, the Biden administration has already taken numerous steps to restore environmental protections.

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Anne Marie Green
Right to Repair Campaign, Associate

Unrestrained by the Right to Repair, companies test the boundaries of ownership. People are pushing back, and recently forced the craft device maker Cricut to abandon a change to its terms of use. 

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Alex DeBellis
Right to Repair Campaign, Associate

Lawmakers and FTC commissioners agree that it’s time to protect consumers’ Right to Repair 

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Anne Marie Green
Right to Repair Campaign, Associate

Environmental advocates support ‘Right to Repair’ legislation

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Patricia Kelmar
Director, Health Care Campaigns

Some consumers continue to be billed for COVID tests and vaccines. So let's get the story straight here.

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Henry Hintermeister
Creative Associate

It's illegal to void a product's warranty simply because it receives an "unauthorized" repair.