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CR Memo of Support: Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act

Consumer Reports supports the enactment of the Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act to protect consumers from the adverse health impacts and environmental damage of…

March 7, 2025

EnergyHealth
Press Release

Consumer Reports Tests of Synthetic Braiding Hair Find Carcinogens in All Products

CR Calls on FDA to Regulate Synthetic Braiding Hair, Citing Toxic Chemical Risks YONKERS, NY—Consumer Reports (CR) tested two samples each of 10 popular synthetic…

February 27, 2025

HealthProduct Safety
Press Release

Supreme Court guts Chevron deference, undermining federal agencies’ ability to protect the public

Consumer Reports calls on Congress to pass law confirming agencies have the discretion needed to protect public health, safety, and fairness in the marketplace  WASHINGTON,…

June 28, 2024

EnergyFoodMoneyTech & PrivacyProduct SafetyHealthCars
Press Release

NHTSA Urged to Get Toxic Flame Retardant Chemicals Out of Cars

Consumer Reports Delivers Over 32,000 Petition Signatures and Letter Signed by More Than 70 Organizations Calling on Federal Auto Safety Agency to Protect the Public…

June 18, 2024

CarsHealthProduct Safety

Joint Letter Urging NHTSA to update Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 302

We, the undersigned organizations, are writing to urge the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to update Federal Motor Vehicle Safety…

June 18, 2024

CarsHealthProduct Safety
Press Release

GoodRx Fined $1.5M by FTC Following Consumer Reports Investigation

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The telemedicine company GoodRx will pay a $1.5 million fine for sharing consumers’ sensitive health information with companies like Google and Facebook,…

February 1, 2023

Tech & PrivacyHealth

Bill to end forced arbitration in workplace sexual assault/harassment

DESCRIPTION: An important first step toward ending forced arbitration, a tactic increasingly inserted by corporations into the fine print of their consumer and employment contracts,…

February 10, 2022

MoneyHealth

CR letter to Senate Judiciary Committee supporting bipartisan prescription drug antitrust bills

Description: Consumer Reports sent a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Members in support of four bipartisan bills, set for a vote in the Committee, to…

July 29, 2021

MoneyHealth

CR letter to House Judiciary Committee, competition in health care and pharmaceuticals

DESCRIPTION: The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust held a hearing to examine competition problems in the development and delivery of health care services and products,…

April 29, 2021

MoneyHealth
Press Release

Congress acts to restore competition to health insurance by removing 75-year-old antitrust exemption

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Consumer Reports is hailing Congress’s passage of the Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act, which removes the antitrust exemption that since 1945 has…

December 22, 2020

Health
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