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A Future Of Driverless Vehicles Is Coming. Will SLO Be Ready? By Nick Wilson, SAN LUIS OBISPO TRIBUNE September 1, 2018 https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/article216737550.html…
Sep 1, 2018
Bills To Stop New Federal Offshore Drilling Approved, But Offshore Drilling Expands In CA By Dan Bacher, INDYBAY August 31, 2018 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/08/31/18817242.php…
Aug 31, 2018
Yahoo Enters The Privacy Fray Once Again The new class action suit centers on emails sent from Yahoo Mail to Gmail users…
Aug 31, 2018
Utility Union Benefits From California Wildfire Legislation By Jonathan J. Cooper, ASSOCIATED PRESS August 31, 2018 https://apnews.com/0a076ef809f44e74b683d37cb0d54560 SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Utility…
Aug 31, 2018
Trump Donor Buys California Power Plant, Asks Feds To Change Energy Market By David R. Baker, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE August 29, 2018…
Aug 29, 2018
Deceptive Pricing: Unlawful Trickery or Skillful Selling? By Andrew Lustigman and Morgan Spina, NEW YORK LAW JOURNAL August 24, 2018 https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2018/08/24/deceptive-pricing-unlawful-trickery-or-skillful-selling/?slreturn=20180724170311 Hard…
Aug 24, 2018
Former Head of California Nurses Association Joins Consumer Watchdog Board By Paul Demko, POLITICO Pulse August 22, 2018 https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-pulse/2018/08/22/schumer-convinced-kavanaugh-would-axe-roe-vs-wade-323872 RoseAnn DeMoro, former…
Aug 22, 2018
Trump’s Coal Plan To Have Little Direct Effect on California By David R. Baker, THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE August 21, 2018 https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Trump-s-coal-plan-to-have-little-direct-effect-13171685.php…
Aug 21, 2018
California Wants to Unite the Western States Under One Power Grid By Mark Chediak, BLOOMBERG August 21, 2018 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-21/enron-s-ghost-haunts-push-to-unite-western-u-s-under-one-grid California is ready…
Aug 21, 2018
Woman Plans California Supreme Court Appeal Over Injuries in Snowboarding Accident Kathleen Willhide-Michiulis says she has struggled to recover from the trauma…
Aug 21, 2018
Political Notebook: RoseAnn DeMoro Joins Forces With Consumer Watchdog By Joe Garofoli, THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE August 20, 2018 https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Political-Notebook-RoseAnn-DeMoro-joins-forces-13169903.php Five months…
Aug 20, 2018
Most of the 21,000 Oil Wells Approved Under Gov. Brown Are In Low-Income Areas, Communities of Color By Dan Bacher, DAILY KOS…
Aug 18, 2018
PG&E Sponsors TV Wildfire Commercials — Though You Wouldn’t Know By Watching Them By Hannah Norman, SAN FRANCISCO BUSINESS TIMES August 16,…
Aug 16, 2018
STRANGER THINGS – Consumer Watchdog Busts Dodd By Bryan Anderson, SACRAMENTO BEE – CAPITOL ALERT August 16, 2018 https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article216735930.html Consumer advocacy group…
Aug 16, 2018
Welcome to California, Home of the Never-Ending Fires, Rising Temperatures and Disappearing Coasts Why California’s war on climate change may not be…
Aug 16, 2018
Capitol Debate On Utilities’ Fire Liability Sparks A Lobbying Frenzy By Matier & Ross, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE August 15, 2018 https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Capitol-debate-on-utilities-fire-liability-13156339.php With…
Aug 15, 2018
TV’s New Wildfire Commercials Quietly Brought To You By PG&E By David R. Baker, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE August 14, 2018 https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Those-new-wildfire-TV-ads-are-backed-by-PG-E-13156273.php California’s…
Aug 14, 2018
California Today: A Move to Mandate 100% Carbon-Free Electricity By Ivan Penn and Inyoung Kang, THE NEW YORK TIMES – CALIFORNIA TODAY…
Aug 14, 2018