I haven’t followed the Obama/ PIRG thing closely but if Obama or the MSMhas said it was just about recycling, they are lying. PIRG was super anti-nuclear power. The state PIRGs parrotted the agenda Nader set with his Nat PIRG/ DCPIRG
Wasn’t it NYPIRG who forced the never full powering and then dismantling of Shoreham? Now Long Islanders pay extremely high electric bills. Was Obama involved?
May miracles never cease! I actually found an article still intact and as you say more embellishment from Obama as the title of the article states!
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/30/us/politics/30obama.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin
quotes:
After about a year, he was hired by the New York Public Interest Research Group, a nonprofit organization that promotes consumer, environmental and government reform. He became a full-time organizer at City College in Harlem, paid slightly less than $10,000 a year to mobilize student volunteers.
Mr. Obama says he spent three months “trying to convince minority students at City College about the importance of recycling” — a description that surprised some former colleagues. They said that more “bread-and-butter issues” like mass transit, higher education, tuition and financial aid were more likely the emphasis at City College.