In addition to providing students with a valuable educational experience, the Student PIRGs have also served as a vehicle for students to win concrete solutions to society's problems. These are just a few accomplishments from the past thirty-five years.

OSPIRG wins ban on credit discrimination against women in Oregon (1973)

OSPIRG work helps shape goals for Oregon's seminal land use planning program (1973-74)

CoPIRG helps win law protecting consumers from rental agency rip-offs (1974)

INPIRG helps win landlord-tenant law in Bloomington, Indiana (1970s)

CALPIRG creates Consumer Education Program with City of San Diego (1976)

CALPIRG wins improved access to hospital care for the poor (1976)

MoPIRG helps establish Missouri’s Small Claims Court System (1976)

ConnPIRG helps win Connecticut Bottle Bill (1979)

MASSPIRG and MoPIRG pass state Superfund laws (1983)

CoPIRG leads successful campaign for "Motor Voter Initiative" (1984)

The PIRGs' newly launched National Student Campaign for Voter Registration helps registers 750,000 student voters in its first year (1984)

CALPIRG wins law to help ensure car manufacturers must install airbags (1985)

MoPIRG's Community Energy Program helps tenants in Missouri weatherize their apartments (1980s)

Student PIRGs and USA for Africa launch National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness (1985)

MASSPIRG helps win credit card industry Truth In Advertising Law (1987)

CoPIRG leads successful campaign to pass Colorado Safe Drinking Water Act (1988)

WashPIRG helps win referendum creating one of nation's strongest toxic waste cleanup laws (1988)

MASSPIRG authors and wins passage of Toxics Use Reduction Act (1989)

MASSPIRG opens Consumer Action Center, saving consumers an average of $140,000 each subsequent year (1989)

MoPIRG helps win Missouri Safe Drinking Water Act (1989)

ConnPIRG helps win law creating funding to clean up Long Island Sound (1990)

NJPIRG leads coalition effort winning nation's toughest Clean Water Enforcement Act (1990)

CALPIRG helps win law to limit childhood lead exposure (1991)

CoPIRG helps win Colorado Clean Air Act (1992)

CoPIRG convinces newspaper publishers to double use of recycled newsprint (1993)

MoPIRG wins energy-efficiency plan for Missouri buildings (1993)

CALPIRG helps win law blocking new offshore drilling (1994)

MoPIRG and OSPIRG win ballot initiatives setting low campaign contribution limits (1994)

NJPIRG and AmeriCorps launch NJ Water Watch, which has conducted more than 300 river cleanups, removed nearly 800 tons of trash, and educated more than 80,000 students (1994)

CoPIRG sprawl study helps convince state to fund purchase of open spaces (1995)

State PIRGs deliver 1.2 million petition signatures to Congress, helping stop rollback of environmental laws (1995)

WashPIRG advocacy strengthens Seattle’s "Buy Recycled" policy (1995)

MaryPIRG helps double acreage of state's protected wildlands (1996)

MASSPIRG helps recycle 500,000 pounds of newspapers on Boston-area subway platforms (1996)

MASSPIRG helps win River Protection Act (1996)

MASSPIRG wins passage of law to give consumers profiles of their doctors (1996)

CoPIRG backs governor's winning proposal for 700-square-mile urban growth boundary around Denver (1997)

MaryPIRG helps win law to promote redevelopment of urban brownfields (1997)

CoPIRG helps win inclusion of light rail in Denver's 20-year transportation plan (1998)

MASSPIRG and AmeriCorps launch Massachusetts Community Water Watch, which organized more than 180 river cleanups (1998)

Student PIRGs win law requiring colleges to distribute voter registration forms to students (1998)

CALPIRG leads efforts to win California Clean Water Enforcement and Pollution Prevention Act (1999)

WashPIRG helps block Cross-Cascades pipeline (1999)

President Clinton announces PIRG-sponsored plan to protect 60 million acres of national forests (2000)

WISPIRG helps win nation's strongest law to control polluted runoff (2000)

CALPIRG helps win law providing $850 million for energy conservation and renewable energy (2001)

CALPIRG-backed law helps victims of identity theft to correct financial records (2001)

MaryPIRG helps win law to clean up brownfields (2001)

MASSPIRG helps win rules to reduce pollution from diesel trucks and buses by 90 percent (2001)

MASSPIRG wins nation's strongest power plant emissions regulations (2001)

Coalition including NJPIRG wins campaign requiring GE to clean up Hudson River PCBs (2001)

Ohio PIRG and PIRGIM help win federal two-year moratorium on Great Lakes drilling (2001)

CALPIRG and coalition win law to ensure 20 percent renewable energy by 2017 in California (2002)

Statewide coalition including ConnPIRG wins cleanup of state's dirtiest power plants (2002)

NJPIRG Student Chapters win city inspections of rental housing in New Brunswick (2002)

Ohio PIRG student activists help win $15 million to move schools off toxic waste dump (2002)

U.S. PIRG efforts are instrumental in defeat of dirty energy bill (2002)

U.S. PIRG helps win critical Senate vote blocking drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (2002)

MaryPIRG passes new energy efficiency rules and a law to require that more of the state's energy come from clean, renewable sources (2004)

ConnPIRG helps win new law to require cleaner cars be sold in Connecticut (2004)

The Student PIRGs' New Voters Project helps register 524,000 young voters and works to turn them out to the polls (2004)

WashPIRG helps pass I-297, which prevents more nuclear waste from being dumped at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation (2004)

The New Voters Project contributes to dramatic increases in youth voter turnout in New Jersey and Virginia's off-year gubernatorial elections (2005)

MASSPIRG passes new energy efficiency standards for common appliances (2005)

WashPIRG helps pass new rules requiring cleaner cars to be sold in Washington (2005)

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 (2005)

ConnPIRG helps win new law requiring that publishers disclose textbook prices to faculty (2006)

WISPIRG helps pass new law requiring that 10% of Wisconsin's energy come from renewable sources by 2015 (2006)

CALPIRG helps pass the Million Solar Roofs bill and Global Warming Solutions Act, making California a leader in the fight against global warming (2006)

The Student PIRGs' New Voters Project helps register 75,000 young voters and makes 94,000 get-out-the-vote contacts to get youth out to the polls (2006)

WashPIRG helps pass the College Textbook Transparency Act, requiring publishers to disclose book prices when marketing textbooks to professors (2007)

The Student PIRGs help pass the College Cost Reduction and Access Act through Congress, the largest higher education bill in decades (2007)

The Student PIRGs' What’s Your Plan? Campaign talks to the presidential candidates over 100 times on the campaign trail, to ask them about their plans for global warming and higher education (2007)

The Student PIRGs' New Voters Project helps register 118,000 young voters and contacts 440,000 voters to turn them out to the polls (2008)

CALPIRG helps pass Prop 1A, an initiative to build a high-speed rail line connecting California's major cities (2008)

MASSPIRG helps pass the Global Warming Solutions Act, which requires reduction of greenhouse gases emissions from the Commonwealth by 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 and 80 percent by 2050 (2008)

The Student PIRGs help pass strong legislation that will halt the most egregious abuses by the credit card industry (2009)