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Tip Guide: Waste not, want not

Select strategies for reducing waste in 2025

Media Releases ●  December 31, 2024

Energy efficiency

STATEMENT: Biden admin drafting a rushed, flawed plan to fast track data centers and power plants for AI

Environmental and consumer advocates express concerns about environmental harm and costs to consumers in “blind sprint” for AI dominance

Media Statements ●  December 19, 2024

Kids’ health

New report: Loophole allows unsafe toys from overseas to flood market

MASSPIRG releases 39th report on unsafe toys.

Media Releases ●  November 19, 2024

RELEASE: Guide helps you shop used electronics, have greener holiday

November 14, 2024

Consumer alerts

New Report: Less than half of phone companies use anti-robocall technology despite law; unwanted calls down only 17% in 3 years

Three years after a federal law started requiring phone companies to install anti-robocall technology, less than half of those companies have completed the installation.

Media Releases ●  October 29, 2024

Clean air

RELEASE: New interactive map, corporate disclosure show progress on lawn care electrification

Cities, states, corporations slashing pollution, noise from gas-powered lawn equipment

Media Releases ●  October 17, 2024

Clean air

NEWS RELEASE: New interactive map, corporate disclosure show progress on lawn care electrification

Cities, states, corporations slashing pollution, noise from gas-powered lawn equipment.

Media Releases ●  October 16, 2024

Consumer alerts

STATEMENT: Canceling subscriptions, memberships to be easier under new FTC rules

Media Statements ●  October 16, 2024

Fossil fuel pollution

NEW DATA: Large share of U.S. climate pollution comes from handful of coal and gas plants

America’s most polluting facilities emit more greenhouse gasses than some entire states.

Media Releases ●  September 24, 2024

STATEMENT: Massachusetts setting pace on reducing food waste

Policy on food waste working in Massachusetts.

Media Statements ●  September 17, 2024