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The PIRGs emerged in the early 1970s on U.S. college campuses. The PIRG model was proposed in the book Action for a Change by Ralph Nader and Donald Ross, in which they encourage students on campuses across a state to pool their resources to hire full-time professional lobbyists and researchers to lobby for the passage of legislation which addresses social topics of interest to students. [5]
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Part of the reason for the switch was that California passed a series of laws to ban the use of antibiotics in non-medical, prophylactic treatments. Additionally, several groups of consumer advocacy NGOs, led by CalPIRG, had been pressuring a number of restaurant chains to stop using meat raised with low-dose antibiotics. [5]
This year, CALPIRG released a report showing that the volume of plastic bag waste in California had actually increased since 2014 as a result of the loophole in that law. Read more: California's ...
Nader asked Rosenfield to go to California and help grow the California Public Interest Research Group (CALPIRG) in 1981. As program director, he lobbied on a variety of issues including utility and campaign finance reform and public access to government. [1] The goal was to "bring Nader style advocacy to the West Coast." [9]
Before joining UCS, he worked as Director of a Sierra Club chapter and for California Common Cause, Media Alliance and CalPIRG. [ 7 ] After being elected to the Oakland City Council in Nov. 2012, he worked extensively on affordable housing , environmental , police oversight and good government legislation. in 2014 Kalb led [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] a ...
Environment California was formed by the California Public Interest Research Group (CALPIRG) in 2003 to take over its environmental work. [2] Environment California supported and campaigned for the Million Solar Roofs Bill in 2006 and the Global Warming Solutions Act in 2007.
Ten years after California passed landmark legislation to reduce plastic bag use, the tonnage of discarded bags has skyrocketed. What happened?