RELEASE: Microsoft offers extended Windows 10 support, with added cost
PIRG campaign prompts tech giant to provide security updates for longer.
Media Releases
New report highlights wasteful U.S. highway boondoggles, including one in Oregon
Report calls for redirecting infrastructure funds away from harmful highway expansions and toward repairing existing roads, investing in public transit, and giving people more options to travel in ways that are clean, convenient and beneficial to our health and our communities
Broad coalition of groups urges Energy Department to finalize water heater efficiency standards
Consumer, climate, and health advocates called on the U.S. Department of Energy to promptly finalize water heater efficiency standards.
Updated 2023 mid-hurricane season resource guide: data, resources & interview opportunities
The Atlantic hurricane season lasts from June 1 through November 30. This resource guide can help members of the media cover it more thoroughly and accurately.
2023 Wildfire Season coverage guide: data, resources and interview opportunities
The Public Interest Network (which includes PIRG, Environment America and state groups in often-impacted Western and Southwestern states including Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Oregon, Texas and Washington) is sharing information to help contextualize the major environmental, health and consumer concerns posed by the wildfires that will inevitably come this summer.
NEWS RELEASE: Rx patent abuse tactics block generic drugs
New report explains how drug companies manipulate patents to prevent competition
Hundreds of thousands call on the EPA to slash soot pollution
Advocates with Environment America, PennEnvironment and U.S. PIRG joined other health and environmental groups to deliver more than 500,000 public comments to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) headquarters Tuesday in support of stronger limits on soot pollution.
NEW REPORT: Top 20 actions the CFPB took in 2022 to ensure a safer marketplace
Study details how government consumer watchdog protected Americans’ finances
New report shows hospitals charge more than needed to cover patient care, hospital operations
High prices for inpatient, outpatient procedures increase the cost of health care in Oregon
86% of surveyed appliance manufacturers keep repair manuals under wraps
As the FTC considers requiring manufacturers to provide access to repair materials, investigation highlights barriers which thwart appliance repair