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News Release | WashPIRG | Democracy

Initiative promotion is a business that should quit freeloading, pay its own overhead costs

A bill in the Legislature to reform the paid signature-gathering and initiative-promotion industries in Washington has the support of one of the state’s leading watchdog groups.

News Release | WashPIRG | Food

Cutting Ag Subsidies Key to Implementing USDA’s Dietary Recommendations

Statement of Elizabeth Hitchcock, WashPIRG Federal Public Health Advocate on the USDA’s announcement of new Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

News Release | WashPIRG | Food

President signs historic food safety bill

Statement of U.S. PIRG Public Health Advocate Liz Hitchcock on the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act that President Obama signed today, strengthening the Food and Drug Administration’s food safety authority for the first time in 70 years.

News Release | WashPIRG | Transportation

Myth Busted: Federal roads costs not covered by gas taxes

A new report, Do Roads Pay for Themselves? Setting the Record Straight on Transportation Funding,released today by the Washington Public Interest Research Group disproves the common misperception that road-building is paid for by user fees in the form of gas taxes.

News Release | WashPIRG | Consumer Protection

Parents Beware - Many Toys Still Toxic, Hazardous

Dangerous or toxic toys can still be found on America’s store shelves, the Washington Public Interest Research Group (WashPIRG) announced today in its 25th annual Trouble in Toyland report.

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