MASSPIRG Submits Testimony to Increase Bottle Bill Handling Fee
For Immediate Release Monday, March 18, 2013Janet DomenitzTestimony from the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (MASSPIRG) delivered to the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental...
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Letter from Mayor Menino: Raise the Bottle Bill handling fee
BlogFriday, March 22, 2013Janet DomenitzMASSPIRG is excited that Mayor Menino has put his support firmly behind raising the handling fee for redemption centers. Raising the fee will help locally owned...
View ArticleJoin me and Jimmy Tingle Saturday, April 6, 7PM
BlogWednesday, April 3, 2013Janet DomenitzAs we campaign for recycling and other public interest issues, sometimes we forget an important thing: having fun. We're lucky enough that nationally known...
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A New Direction In Driving Trends
BudgetPublic HealthConsumer ProtectionDemocracyFinancial ReformFoodHealth CareHigher EdSafe EnergySolid WasteTaxTransportation MASSPIRG Education Fund Our Changing Relationship with Driving and the...
View ArticleSenate passes Updated Bottle Bill
For Immediate Release Wednesday, May 22, 2013Janet DomenitzIn a move long awaited by 77% of the public in Massachusetts, the state Senate overwhelmingly voted for an amendment to the state budget on...
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Fighting The High Cost Of Rx Drugs
DRIVING UP THE COST OF RX DRUGSWe all know prescription drugs cost too much. That’s partly because brand-name drug companies have been paying off generic drug makers to delay competition and keep...
View ArticleGroup Spotlights Waste Ban Violations, Calls for Enforcement
For Immediate Release Thursday, May 30, 2013Janet DomenitzIn the wake of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) recent decision to lift its 23-year ban on new incinerators,...
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2011-12 Legislative Scorecard
BudgetPublic HealthConsumer ProtectionDemocracyFinancial ReformFoodHealth CareHigher EdSafe EnergySolid WasteTaxTransportation MASSPIRG grades the state legislators on key public interest issues At the...
View ArticleJimmy Tingle & the Battle for the Updated Bottle Bill
BlogThursday, June 13, 2013Janet DomenitzPerhaps the most fun we've ever had at a political rally, Jimmy Tingle's "Battle for the Bottle Bill" is now online for your viewing pleasure. Featuring Jimmy...
View Article12,000 Bay Staters Tell DEP: Enforce the Waste Bans
For Immediate Release Tuesday, July 2, 2013In just over one month’s time, the consumer advocacy group MASSPIRG (Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group) has collected over 12,000 signatures...
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MASSPIRG, Coalition File to Put Updated Bottle Bill on Ballot
For Immediate Release Wednesday, August 7, 2013Janet Domenitz Today we are filing today a ballot initiative known as the Updated Bottle Bill. This proposed law would add water, juice, sports drinks...
View ArticleBroad Coalition Calls For Passage of the Updated Bottle Bill
For Immediate Release Tuesday, September 17, 2013Janet DomenitzThe Updated Bottle Bill (H2943/S1588), the proposal which would add a nickel deposit to beverage containers like water, sports drinks,...
View ArticleWITH BALLOT QUESTION IN THE WORKS, LAWMAKERS HEAR BOTTLE BILL DEBATE
MASSPIRG Update the Bottle Bill State House News Service Tuesday, September 17, 2013Colleen QuinnSTATE HOUSE, BOSTON, SEPT. 17, 2013….Soda company representatives fighting a strong push to expand the...
View ArticleEnvironmentalists, businesses clash over bottle bill
MASSPIRG Update the Bottle Bill Chan. 22 News WWLP.com Tuesday, September 17, 2013Christine LeeBOSTON (WWLP) - 95 state lawmakers have signed onto an expanded bottle bill that proposes to extend the...
View ArticleInitiative Petition to Update the Bottle Bill Qualified
For Immediate Release Monday, December 16, 2013Janet DomenitzContact: Janet Domenitz, Janet.Domenitz@MASSPIRG.org, 617-308-9109Boston, MA- With the Secretary of State’s office making it official, the...
View ArticleProposal to update state's bottle bill is moving on
MASSPIRG Update the Bottle Bill PatriotLedger.com Monday, December 16, 2013Staff WriterBOSTON —The secretary of state’s office having made it official, the Campaign to Update the Bottle Bill announced...
View ArticleThe bottle bill, again: Beacon Hill’s overdue deposit
MASSPIRG Campaign for Zero WasteUpdate the Bottle Bill The Boston Globe Monday, June 9, 2014Editorial BoardTHE LEGISLATURE’S repeated failure to strengthen the state bottle bill has become an...
View ArticleCampaign to Update the Bottle Bill Gathers Over 27,000 Signatures!
BlogThursday, June 12, 2014Deirdre CummingsCampaign Bulletin, June 10, 2014Summer Vol 1, No. 7 Campaign to Update the Bottle Bill collected over 27,000 signatures!Amazing work everyone! The coalition...
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Updated Bottle Bill Heads to November Ballot
For Immediate Release Wednesday, July 2, 2014Janet DomenitzToday, a large group gathered on the steps of the Secretary of State’s office to announce completion of an initiative petition signature...
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Thirty years later, they’re still pushing the bottle bill
MASSPIRG Update the Bottle Bill Boston Globe Friday, August 1, 2014Dan AdamsPassed in 1982, the bottle bill might just be the simplest idea in the voluminous annals of Massachusetts environmental...
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