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June 11, 2008
PIRGs in the News-- Maryland, New York
 Maryland PIRG has a new report: Toxic Baby Furniture: The Latest Case for Making Products Safe from the Start. From the Baltimore Sun story High levels of formaldehyde found in baby furniture by Dennis O'Brien:
The testing was conducted by Berkeley Analytical Associates, an environmental testing firm in Richmond, Calif. "If anything, their calculations are on the conservative side," said Thad Godish, an environmental management professor at Ball State University who was not involved in the report. Newborns and toddlers are more sensitive than adults to formaldehyde in cabinetry and other wood-finished furniture, he said, but cribs may be where babies are the most exposed.
Also today, the New York Times features Answers About Mass Transit from Gene Russianoff, longtime senior attorney for both NYPIRG and its highly-successful subway riders advocacy group, the Straphangers Campaign. From Gene:
You’ve pointed out one of the key challenges and tensions facing the transit system: Can New York afford to expand and still do the necessary repairs to the existing system? The Straphangers Campaign has always cast its lot with the latter, a subway that has 468 subway stations, 6,200 subway cars, 4,500 buses, hundreds of miles of track and tunnel lighting. That's the priority. Having said that, there are strong arguments for moving ahead on a handful of "mega" projects like the Second Avenue Subway, which would move hundreds of thousands of people the day it opens, as well as "decongest" several other lines. It would be great if our elected officials came up with the funding to do both. We will find out in the coming months.
Posted by Ed Mierzwinski at June 11, 2008 09:17 AM
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