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Arizona Poll: Clean Energy Provides Economic Opportunity

Thursday, February 14, 2019
By | Diane Brown
Executive Director

Arizonans overwhelmingly embrace the idea of growing the state’s energy efficiency and renewable energy resources and believe clean energy is important to Arizona jobs and the economy, according to a new statewide poll.

Thinking about reducing plastic waste in your life? Here's how one U.S. PIRG member cut her waste in half

Wednesday, January 16, 2019
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 "It's freeing to not be constantly wanting more and better stuff."

Ford and Volkswagen form “Global Alliance”; Companies to Investigate ways to Develop Electric Vehicles

Tuesday, January 15, 2019
By | Diane Brown
Executive Director

Two of the world’s largest automakers, Ford and Volkswagen, announced at the Detroit Auto Show that they’re teaming up to build vehicles together. Although they are starting by developing commercial vans and medium-sized pickups, the companies agreed to "investigate" how they can work together to develop next generation vehicles, such as electric cars. 

Mulvaney Lobs One Last Softball To Industry Opponents of CFPB

Monday, December 31, 2018
By | Ed Mierzwinski
Senior Director, Federal Consumer Program

As the year 2018 came to an end, U.S. PIRG, Americans for Financial Reform and AFR members filed the last in in a seemingly interminable series of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Requests for Information. Although there was no clear intent to this "Data Collection" RFI, we, and allied academic scholars who filed a separate comment, both inferred it as another opportunity for industry opponents of the CFPB to attack the Bureau's consumer protection mission -- this time by challenging its collection and use of data to evaluate and respond to financial marketplace problems that harm consumers. 

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