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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...
...MassPIRG is "far to the left of liberal," said James E. Higgins '83, chairman of the Republican union, yesterday...
...part of a national Republican campaign against the 21 PIRGs around the country, the state Republican union is opposing funding of MassPIRG's 11 campus chapters and the establishment of new branches. Higgins said. Harvard has no PIRG chapter...
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...