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Capitol Watchdog: Upcoming Meetings to Watch
This week marks the first public hearing into the Department of Motor Vehicles' new draft regulations for robot cars. In December, the DMV came out with strong safety protections requiring cars have a...
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Special Report: Will The Leak At Porter Ranch & PUC-Gate Ruin Brown’s Legacy?
• Paper trail of Admin's lack of well safety makes Brown culpable in Porter Ranch• New questions raised about Porter Ranch well maintenance• PUC plans for natural gas storage expansion in Aliso to...
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Capitol Watchdog: Upcoming Meetings to Watch
Consumer Watchdog will present new evidence at the upcoming Petroleum Market Advisory Committee meeting to show that refiners have used market power to raise gas prices. The committee will be...
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Don't Blow Up The CPUC, Overhaul It
Assemblyman Mike Gatto unveiled a big idea -- blow up the CPUC before anything else in our shoddy utility infrastructure goes Boom. In a nutshell, he wants to put a constitutional amendment on the...
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The People v. CPUC’s Michael Picker
The president of the California Public Utilities Commission secretly meets in a Warsaw hotel room with a Southern California Edison executive and eventually ratepayers wind up paying 70 percent of the...
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Time to Expose the Secrets of Big Oil’s Price Manipulation
Big Oil has fought for years to keep its secrets invisible. But this week, state officials may have finally realized that what is good for the oil industry has been devastating to Californians.At a...
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The Messy And Public Breakup of Dave Regan And the Hospital Industry
Capitol Watchdog has been closely following the disintegration of the corporate collaboration between Dave Regan, president of Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West...
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Panel Serves Up Tepid Recommendations For Reforming The Toxics Agency
While Governor Jerry Brown vetoed Senate pro Tem Kevin de León’s signature legislation a year ago to revamp the Department of Toxics Substances Control (DTSC), he approved funds for an Independent...
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Perspective Needed At California Energy Commission
California has a summer blend of gasoline in order for cars to run more efficiently and cleaner in the warmer months. This year, refiners used their market power to raise prices after the switch took...
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California Committee Looking At High Gas Prices Sets Its Sights on Market Power
The Energy Commission committee charged with finding a solution for California’s high gas prices has sometimes been a hostile place for consumers over the last year and a half. At Tuesday's meeting,...
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