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Influential coalition backs universal health care;

Players Urge Compromise, Quick ActionThe San Jose Mercury News (California) The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, a Santa Monica-based consumer group,…

West Coast Motorists Pay SuperSized Refining Profits to Big Oil, Says Group;

BP Profit Report Shows Industry Refining Margins in West Are About Twice the Global Average

Prop 103-Style Regulations of Health Industry Needed To Combat Insurer-Doctor-Hospital Price Gouging, Consumer Group Says

Insurance panel locked in struggle to survive;

Rate-control strategy ineffective, some sayTimes-Picayune (New Orleans, LA) Doug Heller, executive director of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, a California…

California voters see drug and insurance profits driving rise in health costs

Health Insurance Law Weekly The poll also found that 81% of those surveyed want government to assure that all Californians have access…

Chevron reports record profit;

$17.14 billion for the San Ramon oil giant in 2006 helped by lower commodity pricesThe San Francisco Chronicle Consumer advocates said the…

Gas prices lower, but predicted to increase;

Changing of blends likely to cause spikeThe San Diego Union-Tribune The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights in Santa Monica, meanwhile, alleged…

Chevron reports record earnings

The Los Angeles Times "Congress, and particularly the members from California, should be furious at this level of profiteering, even as Chevron…

Chevron uneasy despite high profits: Oil producer expects production to fall in 2007 because of political situations in nations such as Venezuela, Kazakhstan

Contra Costa Times (California) "These are world-record profits on top of world-record profits for Chevron," said Jamie Court, president of FTCR. "And…

Consumer Advocates Call on Congress to Subpoena Exxon’s Funding Records As Oil Giant Underwrites Efforts to Deny Reality of Global Warming

Chevron 22% Yearly Profit Increase Makes it Leader of Big Oil, Villain of California Motorists, Says Group;

As Drivers Gird for Another Round of $3-Plus Summer Pricing, San Ramon-Based Chevron Should Answer for Profiteering

Guidelines on stem cell research offered;

Group promotes worldwide practicesThe San Diego Union-Tribune The Foundation For Taxpayer and Consumer Rights in Santa Monica praised provisions in guidelines that…

Consumer Advocates Welcome New International Stem Cell Research Guidelines Emphasizing Need to Promote Public Benefit And To Guard Against Unrealistic Expectations of Success

Runner, Kuehl preparing stem-cell legislation

Capitol Weekly (California) The reason such a reminder is necessary is that legislators now are getting their first real crack at Proposition…

Exxon Record Profits Also Shows Company Took Less Profit In Run Up To The Election;

Exxon, Shell and Marathon Oil Slashed Q4 Refining Margins To Temporarily Lower Pump Prices, Group Says

AT&T, Verizon spend millions to access California cable TV market

Associated Press The contributions came as lawmakers were rewriting the rules governing the state cable industry to make it much easier for…

King Arnold?

At a press conference today, Arnold avoided a question about whether he would serve a third term if term...

Clear the Pipes

Builders, construction companies and developers poured a whopping $15.9 million into the governor's campaign chests over the last...