Top stories published by U.S. PIRG in February of 2017

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Steve Blackledge in U.S. PIRG

Feb 24, 2017

If it looks like a chicken and walks like a chicken

Anna Low-Beer in U.S. PIRG

Feb 21, 2017

Lead: the sneaky ingredient in your lipstick and lotion

Kathryn Lee in U.S. PIRG

Feb 17, 2017

The digital advocate fighting for your health

Interview with Jeremy Flood, U.S. PIRG Digital Campaigner

Kathryn Lee in U.S. PIRG

Feb 22, 2017

How to make sure you’re getting the best retirement advice from a financial adviser

President Trump called to review the fiduciary rule — now what?

Kathryn Lee in U.S. PIRG

Feb 7, 2017

The internet should be free and open

Net neutrality is the basic principle that all internet traffic should be treated equally. And this principle is being dismantled by the new Federal Communications Commission.

Matthew Wellington in U.S. PIRG

Feb 21, 2017

Chicken industry moves further away from antibiotics, but KFC still chickens out

Kathryn Lee in U.S. PIRG

Feb 3, 2017

Consumer protection suspended

On Monday, President Trump promised to do “a big number” on the Wall Street reforms we helped pass in the aftermath of the Great Recession.

On Friday, he started to follow through on his promise, delaying a commonsense consumer protection to require…

Ed Mierzwinski in U.S. PIRG

Feb 2, 2017

Meet the CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)

Updated January 2017: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau or CFPB turned five years old on July 21, 2016! It’s the first federal agency with just one job: Protecting all consumers –- with special offices to protect servicemembers…

Kathryn Lee in U.S. PIRG

Feb 8, 2017

Defending the Consumer Bureau and Richard Cordray

“Rich Cordray is the LeBron James of regulators, it makes no sense to fire him.” Our consumer program director, Ed Mierzwinski, is right. We need to maintain a strong and independent Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, free from political and…

Anna Low-Beer in U.S. PIRG

Feb 1, 2017

Monsanto’s trade group targets independent science with new campaign

January 2017

March 2017

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