Trouble in Toyland 2017
For over 30 years, U.S. PIRG Education Fund has conducted an annual survey of toy safety, which has led to over 150 recalls and other regulatory actions over the years, and has helped educate the...
View ArticleTrash in America
The United States produces an immense amount of waste. Natural resources are continually extracted to produce goods that are used in the U.S. – often only briefly – before they are thrown into...
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Kiss Off: A Consumer's Guide To Saying No To Toxic Lip Products
Lip products are used by most Americans every day. In fact, 81 percent of women and 39 percent of men use lipstick or lip balm products. Unfortunately, the ingredients in these products are barely...
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...
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In Your Face
The negative health effects of asbestos are well-known. Most people may associate asbestos contamination with the workplace or decades-old construction material, but alarmingly, recent media reports...
View ArticleFollowing the Money 2018
One of our primary causes throughout the decades has been holding government officials accountable for responsible stewardship of our tax dollars. To that end, U.S. PIRG Education Fund released its...
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Accidents Waiting to Happen: Coal Ash Ponds Put Our Waterways at Risk
Clean water is essential to America’s health and welfare. Our lakes, rivers, streams and creeks provide us with water to drink, add character to our most beautiful natural places, and give us places to...
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Electric Buses: Clean Transportation for Healthier Neighborhoods and Cleaner Air
Buses play a key role in in our nation’s transportation system, carrying millions of children daily to and from school and moving millions of Americans each day around our cities. Buses reduce the...
View ArticleShining A Light on Consumer Problems:
Our report, Shining A Light on Consumer Problems: The Case for Public Access to the CFPB’s Financial Complaints Database, details why it is important that the highly successful Consumer Financial...
View ArticleDebt Collectors
Report: Our latest report based on the CFPB's public Consumer Complaint database reviews the most-complained about debt collectors. Funny, a new CFPB complaint "snapshot" does not. The report comes as...
View ArticleHighway Boondoggles 4
America's infrastructure is in rough shape. Many of our roads, bridges, and transit systems are aging and in need of repair. Yet, year after year, state and local governments propose billions of...
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Trouble in the Air
People across America regularly breathe unhealthy air that increases their risk of premature death, asthma attacks and other adverse health impacts.In 2016, 73 million Americans experienced more than...
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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 ArticleEquifax Breach: One Year Later
A year ago tomorrow, Equifax announced that hackers had breached its system and accessed the data of nearly 150 million U.S. consumers. To mark the anniversary of that notorious announcement, we are...
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 ArticlePaying for Electric Buses
Most of America’s school and transit buses run on diesel, a highly-polluting fuel, but there is a better option. All-electric buses are here, and they’re cleaner, healthier and save money for transit...
View ArticleClimate Solutions from Day One
New governors are getting ready to take office in 20 states, from Florida to Alaska. As America’s newly elected governors prepare to take on their states’ biggest challenges, they should prioritize...
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 ArticleGlyphosate In Beer and Wine
Roundup is everywhere. As the most commonly used agrichemical in the world, Roundup and its main active ingredient, glyphosate, is showing up in places people do not expect, such as food and drinks. In...
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