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Featured Resources
Is Alexa always listening? How to protect your data from Amazon
Refill, Return, Reimagine: Innovative Solutions to Reduce Wasteful Packaging
Outpatient outrage: Hospitals charge fees for care at the doctor’s office
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Lawn care goes electric
Gasoline-powered lawn and garden equipment – lawn mowers, string trimmers, leaf blowers, chainsaws, snow blowers and other machines – is noisy, polluting and putting our health at risk. Going electric could do a lot more than make our yards look better.
How can we reduce the environmental cost of clothing returns?
Small changes to online shopping habits can cut carbon emissions and help stop returns from piling up in landfills.
The Plane Truth Part 3
Complaint volume is larger than record-setting 2022, so high that DOT can't keep up.
Getting lead out of schools – MASSPIRG testifies before committee
Public health leaders and organizations called on state lawmakers to pass a bill to get the lead out of drinking water at Massachusetts schools and childcare centers at a State House public hearing.
How to take more control of your Mastercard data
Mastercard sells transaction data - here's how to take more control of the data it has about you.