Protecting Democracy [1]

American democracy is in jeopardy, from the disastrous Citizens United ruling that flooded our politics with corporate cash to the immoral assault on voting rights. We work every day to defend against these threats and advance bold reforms.

Tell Congress: Pass the Protecting Our Democracy Act

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Coalition Calls on Americans to Reject Trump’s Threat to the Rule of Law and U.S. Democracy

Working With The Not Above the Law Coalition to Call for January 6th Justice
Making Government Work [2]

The U.S. government should work for the public, not corporations or industry. It should safeguard consumers, workers and the environment, and be funded well enough to do so. The budget process must not be obstructed by partisanship.

Get Corporate Money Out of Politics

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It’s Time to Cut the Bloated Pentagon Budget to Fund People, Not Military Contractors

Ensuring Public Money Does Not Go To Private Equity
Consumer & Worker Safeguards [3]

Every day, big banks, big polluters, and big tech companies are threatening our economy, our environment, and our democracy – sacrificing Main Street Americans and our families on the altar of corporate profits. Public Citizen advocates for ordinary people by taking on corporate interests and their cronies in government.

Don’t Let Big Tech Write Our Digital Privacy Laws

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A.I. Is Already Harming Democracy, Competition, Consumers, Workers, Climate, and More

Twitter Likely Violated Consent Decree, Public Citizen Tells FTC, DOJ
Safe & Affordable Drugs & Devices [4]

Prescription drugs are unaffordable and new drugs and devices often are approved without being proven safe and effective. Public Citizen challenges Big Pharma, device manufacturers and federal regulators to make drugs and medical devices safe, effective and accessible to all.

Fight Pharma Greed

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Health Care [5]

Health care in the U.S. leaves too many people out, costs too much and doesn’t meet acceptable standards of quality. Much of the care that we get is unaffordable, unnecessary or harmful. Public Citizen advocates Medicare for All, stronger oversight of dangerous doctors and safe clinical trials.

Win Medicare for All

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Report: Ranking of the Rate of State Medical Boards’ Serious Disciplinary Actions, 2017-2019

Statement: FDA Must Reject Tanezumab as a Treatment for Osteoarthritis Due to Unacceptable Dangers, Little to No Benefit
Globalization & Trade [6]

Our Mission

Global Trade Watch’s mission is to ensure that in this era of globalization, a majority have the opportunity to enjoy economic security, a healthy environment, safe food, medicines and products, access to quality affordable services such as health care and the exercise of democratic decision-making about the matters that affect our lives. Global Trade Watch has led the fight against corporate-rigged “trade” agreements that provide special powers for Big Pharma to raise medicine prices, promote the outsourcing of jobs to low-wage countries and undermine the food safety and other safeguards on which our families rely. For decades, we have fought for progressive alternatives that benefit people and the planet.

President Biden: No Secrecy in Indo-Pacific Trade Talks

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Climate Peace Clause Needed to Stop Trade Attacks on Climate Policies

Big Tech’s “Digital Trade” Power-Grab
Climate & Energy [7]

The climate crisis is the challenge of our time. We can fix it with solutions that will make us healthier and more economically secure. We must act quickly to make our economy run on renewable power — and ensure that disadvantaged families and displaced workers share equitably in the new economy. We also must fight the corrupting power of fossil fuel companies and ensure that energy regulators are effective and publicly accountable.

Tell Toyota: Go all-in on EVs

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Climate Roadmap for U.S. Financial Regulation

Toyota’s Troubling Electric Vehicle Track Record
Justice & the Courts [8]

Litigation can remedy or deter wrongdoing, impact policy and meaningfully slow abuses of power. Whether suing on behalf of our members to ensure the honest functioning of government, or representing individual consumers seeking redress in court, our litigation draws on our expertise in administrative law, constitutional law, and government transparency.

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Heat Stress

What You Should Know

Report: The Cost of Inaction—Employers Pay a High Financial Price When They Don’t Protect Workers from Heat Stress

Report: Boiling Point—As Many as 2,000 Workers Die of Heat Stress Each Year

State Attorneys General Petition OSHA for Emergency Heat Standard

Excessive heat exposure can result in heat exhaustion, organ and muscle damage, and even death. Symptoms of heat exhaustion — such as dizziness, fatigue and reduced cognitive functioning — can cause serious workplace accidents. Alarmingly, the epidemic of worker injury and death due to excessive heat exposure is projected to worsen in the coming years, as record-breaking
summer temperatures are now becoming the norm. In addition to outdoor workers, indoor workers, such as employees in restaurants and warehouses without proper cooling or ventilation, are at increased risk as well.

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What you can do

Tell Congress: Protect Workers from Deadly Heat

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Tell OSHA: Protect Workers from Extreme Heat

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Our Work

The solutions to heat stress are commonsense: giving workers plenty of water, rest breaks in a cool location, modified workloads and training on how to protect themselves from heat stress. However, most employers unfortunately won’t implement these practices voluntarily. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is working to create a standard to protect workers from heat. Yet, a national standard is years away at the current pace. Some states have resorted to creating their own workplace heat standards, but the vast majority of U.S. workers remain unprotected. Public Citizen is working to change that by urging OSHA to issue an emergency temporary heat standard to protect workers until the permanent standard is in place.