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Corporate Cutbacks Now Likely to Generate Price Spikes Later As Economy Tries to Recover Santa Monica, CA -- Conoco Phillips’ CEO…
Jan 28, 2009You may qualify for auto insurance premium reduction, according to a consumer group that wants insurers to do even more when it…
Jan 28, 2009California's first-in-the-nation requirement that mileage be considered in annual premiums will benefit the environment, says NRDC SAN FRANCISCO, CA (January 27, 2009)…
Jan 27, 2009Click here to view the TV news clip of this story. It seems simple enough. The fewer miles you drive, the less…
Jan 27, 2009WASHINGTON, D.C. -- They've been bailed out, but not kicked out. At banks that are receiving federal bailout money nearly nine out…
Jan 27, 2009Santa Monica, CA -- The non-partisan Consumer Watchdog called on Google today to cease a rumored lobbying effort aimed at allowing the…
Jan 27, 2009U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer has asked California Attorney General Jerry Brown to investigate whether Shell Oil, in suspending crude deliveries to the…
Jan 19, 2009This issue has arisen most recently with appointments to the state's Integrated Waste Management Board. Didn't know that board existed, did you?…
Jan 18, 2009Such money must be spent on specific propositions and can't be used as 'slush funds' to promote the politicians. The rules follow…
Jan 16, 2009Consumer Watchdog says production cuts at refineries in California, for example, have far exceeded the state's drop in consumption. "The refinery cutbacks…
Jan 16, 2009UPDATE: After receiving clarification from the FPPC, Consumer Watchdog's concerns about public disclosure under the new regulations were eliminated. All new information…
Jan 15, 2009Developers have long sought to weaken CEQA, which they contend delays construction and increases costs. Developers and others in the construction industry…
Jan 14, 2009Letter He Wrote Triggered Complaint, Investigation Although the letter did not prompt the institute staff to reconsider its decision, the nonprofit Consumer…
Jan 13, 2009Burnham Institute president John Reed improperly tried to influence a grant decision by California's $3 billion stem cell program, a state ethics…
Jan 13, 2009This ends an investigation that was launched over a year ago at the request of CIRM watchdog, John Simpson. “I hope Dr.…
Jan 13, 2009The average price soars 25 cents to $1.988 a gallon in less than a month, while the U.S. average rises 10 cents…
Jan 13, 2009The California Fair Political Practices Commission warned Dr. John Reed in an official letter that his effort to appeal the denial of…
Jan 13, 2009Another part of the problem, said Judy Dugan, research director for the nonprofit Consumer Watchdog, is that oil companies didn't invest enough…
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