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News Release | MASSPIRG Education Fund | Democracy

Report Begins to Uncover the Impact of Super PACs on Our Democracy

A new analysis released today of the funding sources for the campaign finance behemoths, Super PACs, confirms what many have predicted in the wake of the Supreme Court’s damaging Citizens United decision: since their inception in 2010, Super PACs have been primarily funded by a small segment of very wealthy individuals and business interests, with a small but significant amount of funds coming from secret sources.

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Report | MASSPIRG Education Fund and Dēmos | Democracy

Auctioning Democracy

The presidential race had barely gotten off the ground when it became clear that 2012 would be the year of the Super PAC. The millions of dollars raised and spent by these strange and powerful court-created entities have created a kind of parallel campaign, this reports begins to investigates its effects on our democracy.

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Report | MASSPIRG | Safe Energy

Too Close to Home

Airborne contamination in the wake of a nuclear accident is not the only threat nuclear power poses to water supplies. In the United States, 49 million Americans receive their drinking water from surface sources located within 50 miles of an active nuclear power plant. Leakage of radioactive material into groundwater is a common occurrence at U.S. nuclear power plants, even if the amount of radioactivity released is tiny compared to that released at Fukushima.

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News Release | MASSPIRG | Safe Energy

Nuclear Power Plants Threaten Drinking Water for 4 Million Bay Staters

The drinking water for 4.8 million people in Massachusetts could be at risk of radioactive contamination from a leak or accident at nuclear power plants in the region, says a new report released today by the MASSPIRG Education Fund and Environment Massachusetts Research and Policy Center.

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News Release | MASSPIRG | Budget, Tax

Tax Havens Used by Romney and Large Corporations Cost Taxpayers Billions

Statement of MASSPIRG Legislative Director, Deirdre Cummings

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News Release | MASSPIRG | Consumer Protection

Consumer Groups Oppose Bill to Remove Prices From Groceries

It soon may be harder for Massachusetts shoppers to find out the price of groceries if a bill just approved by a legislative committee becomes law.

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News Release | MASSPIRG | Consumer Protection, Financial Reform

Congress Handcuffing the Consumer Cop

The Credit CARD Act, passed in Congress in 2009, has eliminated numerous credit card tricks and traps without causing skyrocketing interest rates or any of the other horrible side-effects that the banks once warned about. In spite of that success, the banks and their Congressional allies are now seeking to eliminate the CFPB.

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News Release | MASSPIRG | Budget, Tax

Effort to Close Tax Breaks for Big Oil Fails in US Senate

U.S. Senate votes down S.B. 940 known as the Close Big Oil Tax Loopholes Act on May 17, 2011.

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News Release | MASSPIRG | Consumer Protection, Financial Reform

Senate Republicans to President Obama re: gutting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)

United States Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL), ranking member on the Senate Banking Committee, along with Republican leader Mitch McConnell (KY) and all but two of his 44 Republican colleagues in the U.S. Senate have told President Obama in a letter that there will be no deal on Elizabeth Warren or anyone else to run the CFPB unless it is weakened substantially as proposed in several bills being considered in Congress.

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News Release | MASSPIRG | Consumer Protection

Executive Director of MASSPIRG on this week’s letter from Senate Republicans to President Obama

MASSPIRG congratulates Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) for declining to sign this letter, which proposed that  the CFPB would be run by a five-member commission instead of a director, receive appropriations funding instead of bank user fees, and other body blows to the nascent agency which would  make it a creature of the political Congress, not an independent body. 

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