Word: masspirg
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...Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (MassPIRG) has recently chalked up two major lobbying victories with the November passage of the bottle law and last month's funding of an investigation of hazardous waste disposal around the state...
Many State House observers contacted said that MassPIRG now plays a significant role as a consumer advocate. With its lobbying and a major public information campaign. MassPIRG "was our biggest ally," in the bottle bill passage, said Brian R. Hardy, a spokesman for Gov. Michael S. Dukakis's office of environmental affairs, last week...
Richard J. Hannigan, a MassPIRG official and one of several B.C. students who went to talk to the store owners, said yesterday. "The liquor store owners had gone along with the agreement because they were opposed to the bottle bill, which PIRG supported...
...were unaware of the "day of lobbying" for the cigarette tax bill, which took place last Tuesday. But financial aid directors from Brandeis. Emerson, Wellesley and Boston University and students from Salem State. Boston College and Brandeis came to the event, sponsored by the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (MASSPIRG). In the morning, the group of about 30 talked strategy, and in the afternoon they discussed the bill with aides to more than 40 legislators. The response, they said, was from almost all sides, positive...
...follow up on their efforts, student representatives from each of the campuses say they will begin letter-writing campaigns, and MASSPIRG officials talk about starting a media blitz, including meeting with editorial boards on several newspapers. An AICUM official said last week that a television and radio ad campaign will begin in the next couple of weeks...