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...Fifty years from now people will think of drinking ground water like we think of drinking water out of the Charles," said Stephen J. LeBlanc, environmental policy analyst for the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (MASSPIRG), which supported the referendum campaign two years ago. "We've got to get the sites cleaned...
...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...
...MassPIRG is betting on the premise that "people are fed up" with the wastes building up at the power plants and with the utilities' generously financed campaign against the measure, the spokesman said...
...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...
...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...