Word: masspirg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Massachussetts Public Interest Research Group (MassPIRG), which supports the measure, disagrees. A spokesman said that "cheaper, safer, more reliable" energy is available and affirms that the state's nuclear plants produce too little energy to be "worth the risk" caused by their waste. The group says nuclear plants provide only 4 percent of the region's power...
...purpose of the bill, which has been formulated by the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (MassPIRG) and co-sponsored by 130 state representatives for 1988, is to force large producers of toxic substances to come up with proposals to reduce the amount of waste they produce, said Michael L'Ecuyer, the toxics policy specialist for MassPIRG...
...very elementary," said Massachussetts Public Interest Research Group (MASSPIRG) Consumer Program Director Laura Barrett. "If you create a large plant, you will employ many new people, and thus increase the demand for childcare, so you have to help meet that demand...
...MASSPIRG has been instrumental in researching and publicizing the child care issue, and the organization worked with state lawmakers on a child care report. The report, released two weeks ago, said parents pay most of the costs for child care, and the state contributes $100 million a year, while businesses donate a small voluntary amount...
...More student energy is devoted to video games than to MassPIRG, and look what it's doing--none of it coming out of Harvard University because [Harvard isn't] participating," he said...