Timeline Stories

In response to Hurricane Katrina, PIRG students across the country raise hundreds of thousands of dollars and send hundreds of volunteers to the Gulf Coast to help with rebuilding efforts

WashPIRG helps pass new rules requiring cleaner cars to be sold in Washington

MASSPIRG passes new energy efficiency standards for common appliances

The New Voters Project contributes to dramatic increases in youth voter turnout in New Jersey and Virginia’s off-year gubernatorial elections

WashPIRG helps pass I-297, which prevents more nuclear waste from being dumped at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation

The Student PIRGs’ New Voters Project helps register 524,000 young voters and works to turn them out to the polls

ConnPIRG helps win new law to require cleaner cars be sold in Connecticut

MaryPIRG passes new energy efficiency rules and a law to require that more of the state’s energy come from clean, renewable sources

U.S. PIRG helps win critical Senate vote blocking drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

U.S. PIRG efforts are instrumental in defeat of dirty energy bill