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The State Insurance Chief Settles with Allstate, Which Agrees Not to Oppose a 28.5% Homeowners' Rate Cut. California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner…
Aug 5, 2008Many Workers Now Have Health Insurance Policies with a $1 Million to $2 Million "Lifetime Maximum." What Happens When You Exceed It?…
Aug 3, 2008Chevron Corp. rocketed to record quarterly profits of $5.98 billion, the oil giant reported Friday, but some industry watchers pilloried Chevron's profits.…
Aug 1, 2008The oil giant brings in $11.68 billion, the largest profit for a U.S. company, and still fails to meet analysts' expectations. Critics…
Aug 1, 2008Chevron Data Shows Industry Lag in Producing New Oil from U.S. Source -- Lower Production Shows Failure of Investment, Not Lack of…
Aug 1, 2008Nonprofit Group Run By an Adviser Spends to Assist Senator's Agenda Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata has solicited at least $200,000…
Aug 1, 2008Exxon’s ‘Biggest Profit in the World’ Is Actually Bigger -- $8 Billion in Unproductive Share Buybacks Should be Counted, Says Group Shell,…
Jul 31, 2008When we at Consumer Watchdog heard a disturbing rumor late last week that Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi (D-Hayward) is considering authoring the governor's…
Jul 30, 2008New Quarterly Records Show Oil Companies 'Spiting the Future For the Sake of Cash in Hand' Santa Monica, CA -- BP,…
Jul 29, 2008Proposed Regulations Would Curtail Abusive Behavior By Patent Applicants WASHINGTON, DC -- A coalition of consumer advocacy and public interest groups today…
Jul 29, 2008The California stem cell agency's Standards Working Group hammered out very thorough ethical guidelines to ensure human embryonic stem cell lines derived…
Jul 29, 2008Bill could Alter CIRM's Focus With a $3 billion pot of stem cell research cash in the balance, California legislators want to…
Jul 28, 2008Interested in how the California stem cell agency has so far parceled out $554 million in research grants? The California Institute for…
Jul 28, 2008When California's reform-minded Gov. Hiram Johnson launched the referendum process in 1911, his idea was to give common citizens more of a…
Jul 28, 2008The insurance industry is busy telling us that it has teamed up with environmentalists to clean the air by cutting insurance premiums…
Jul 26, 2008Governor Schwarzenegger's attempt to drastically cut wages for hundreds of thousands of state workers until a new budget is approved has drawn…
Jul 26, 200850-Cent Slide Foreseen as Drop in Demand Deflates Crude Oil LITTLE ROCK, AR -- Gasoline prices have fallen nearly 10 cents a…
Jul 25, 2008Wind and Natural Gas Are Priorities on List Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens became one of the world's richest people by drilling…
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