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The Trump Administration’s Flawed Reasons for Rolling Back Clean Car Standards

Friday, August 10, 2018
By | Matt Casale
Director, Highway Boondoggles Campaign

The Trump administration is making some pretty outlandish claims to justify its roll back of the nation’s most effective program at fighting climate change. Asserting that stronger fuel economy standards make our roads less safe, the administration moved last week to weaken Obama-era clean car standards -- but their claims just aren’t true.

We Join Leading Groups Urging SEC To Strengthen Weak Investor Best Interest Proposal

Wednesday, August 8, 2018
By | Ed Mierzwinski
Senior Director, Federal Consumer Program

We've joined leading consumer, civil rights, labor and older American organizations in a comment letter urging the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to strengthen its proposed "Regulation Best Interest" intended to ensure that all broker-dealers and other individuals and firms offering investment advice act do so in a fiduciary capacity, or in the best interest of their investor-clients. (Right now, it doesn't).

ID Theft & Privacy Checklists

Friday, August 3, 2018
By | Mike Litt
Director, Campaign to Defend the Consumer Bureau

Today, we're releasing our revamped Identity Theft and Online Privacy resources.

MASSPIRG calls on lawmakers to include 2 key consumer protections in Health Care Bill

Wednesday, July 18, 2018
By | Deirdre Cummings
Legislative Director

MASSPIRG joined with consumer, public health, faith and provider organizations in calling on state lawmakers to include measures to provide for prescription drug pricing transparency and ends the practice of surprise billing in final health care bill currently being negotiated in a joint House and Senate Conference Committee. See out letters below that call on the committee to adopt these 2 consumer protections. 

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