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Harris, Feinstein Sign On For Bill Targeting Sites That Enable Sex Trafficking By Jill Tucker, THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE http://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/Harris-Feinstein-sign-on-for-bill-targeting-12331051.php California’s two…
Nov 3, 2017Oil Industry Spent Millions On Lobbying As California Lawmakers Debated Cap-And-Trade Extension By Patrick McGreevy, LOS ANGELES TIMES http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-oil-industry-spent-millions-on-lobbying-1509645501-htmlstory.html Corporations, unions and…
Nov 2, 2017Report: Trump to Withdraw Proposed V2V Mandate By John Eggerton, BROADCASTING AND CABLE http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/washington/report-trump-withdraw-proposed-v2v-mandate/169789 Administration said to be backing away from DSRC…
Nov 1, 2017Industry Faces Long Haul To Legalize Self-Driving Semis By Keith Laing, THE DETROIT NEWS October 30, 2017 http://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/mobility/2017/10/30/industry-faces-long-haul-legalize-self-driving-semis/107182628/ Washington — Trucking companies…
Oct 30, 2017WASHINGTON — For years, the country’s biggest technology companies have been virtually untouchable in Washington. The public adored the companies’ new devices,…
Oct 26, 2017Law360, New York (October 23, 2017, 7:03 PM EDT) — A California man on Friday became the latest in a string of…
Oct 25, 2017Perhaps some day, every well up in Aliso Canyon will sit empty and dry, with no trace— not one molecule— of natural…
Oct 23, 2017Corruption can kill. The fires that laid waste to California’s Wine Country and at least 42 lives were not merely the product…
Oct 23, 2017The deadliest wildfires in state history have raised questions about whether a repeat culprit might again be to blame for starting or…
Oct 18, 2017Last Friday, ten consumer and privacy advocacy groups, including the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Center for Digital Democracy, and Consumer Watchdog, sent…
Oct 18, 2017Consumer Watchdog says “junk” health plans could leave patients on the hook for unlimited medical bills. When President Trump on Thursday signed…
Oct 16, 2017Despite Sen. Kamala Harris’s crusade against outlets that allow advertisements for underage trafficking, the California Democrat has resisted publicly commenting or signing…
Oct 16, 2017California has inched one step closer to permitting the testing of fully driverless vehicles on its public roads, a development that could…
Oct 13, 2017Driverless cars — with nobody behind the wheel — could be on California roads and highways by June 2018.That doesn’t mean you’ll…
Oct 11, 2017The organization Consumer Watchdog has issued a statement asking if Gov. Jerry Brown should sign a bill that would benefit the Newhall…
Oct 10, 2017Washington — California Sen. Kamala Harris’s name came up multiple times at a Senate hearing last month on child sex trafficking legislation,…
Oct 10, 2017Yahoo said Tuesday that the number of accounts impacted by a massive security breach in 2013 was three times larger than it…
Oct 4, 2017Washington — Lawmakers in the U.S. Senate are scheduled to debate legislation on Wednesday that would set rules for self-driving cars at…
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