PIRGIM Public Interest Research Group In
Michigan www.umich.edu/~pirg/
Our handout, “Student
PIRGs and Higher Education” includes a partial list of PIRG accomplishments
over the past 30 years. However, it only
includes accomplishments of state PIRGs that currently have chapters, so it does
not include PIRGIM accomplishments. The
following is a partial list of PIRGIM accomplishments.
1973-PIRGIM
study of deceptive gas price advertising leads Michigan Attorney General to
adopt fair advertising guideline, which nearly every Michigan Gas Station
complied with
1974-
PIRGIM helps win Generic Drug Law for Michigan.
1976-
PIRGIM campaigns for Michigan referendum enacting state Bottle Bill.
1977-
PIRGIM helps win Michigan Freedom of Information law.
1978-
PIRGIM helps lead effort to win key protections for tenants in Michigan.
1979-
PIRGIM sponsors largest rally against nuclear power in Michigan’s history.
1981-
PIRGIM organizes the very first “Take Back the Night” march at the University
of Michigan.
1984-
PIRGIM helps win Michigan phone company rate hike reduction of $378.5 million.
1986-
PIRGIM helps win right-to-know law for toxic substances in Michigan workplaces.
1988-
PIRGIM helps win ballot initiative allocating $425 million for toxic waste
cleanup in Michigan.
PIRGIM Public Interest Research Group In
Michigan www.umich.edu/~pirg/
1990-
PIRGIM helps win Michigan’s toxic art supply labeling law.
1990-
PIRGIM wins nation’s toughest Polluter Pays legislation in Michigan.
1993-
PIRGIM wins landfill cleanup and curbside recycling programs in Riverview,
Michigan.
1997-
PIRGIM wins $460,000 in water pollution lawsuit against New Haven Foundry in
Macomb, Michigan.
2001-
PIRGIM helps win bill provisions to control sprawl in Michigan
2002-
PIRGIM helps win ban on drilling Great Lakes from Michigan Shorline.
2003- Students For PIRGIM helps pass the Ann Arbor Green Belt
by generating student support.
