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By Karen Garcia, LA TIMES https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-12-18/car-insurance-premiums-are-skyrocketing-what-drivers-can-do-about-it As if high gas prices weren’t making life miserable enough, California drivers are being buffeted by…
Dec 19, 2023By Anne Mulkern, E&E NEWS When California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law last spring a measure aimed at penalizing oil companies…
Dec 19, 2023By William Gavin, THE MESSENGER https://themessenger.com/business/tesla-faces-growing-legal-challenges-over-autopilot-amid-massive-recall Before Tesla issued a recall covering more than 2 million electric vehicles over software issues, at…
Dec 15, 2023By Staff Reporters, KPCC – Los Angeles, CA Click below to listen to the audio of this radio broadcast segment.
Dec 14, 2023By Dan Bacher, DAILY KOS https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/12/13/2211502/-Consumer-Watchdog-Calls-Out-Oil-Refiners-Greed-Disinformation?utm_campaign=recent Group Makes Case For Price Gouging Penalty Set At 70 Cents Per Gallon Sacramento, CA —…
Dec 13, 2023By Dan Bacher, DAILY KOS https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/12/7/2210299/-California-s-big-oil-refiners-raked-in-record-profit-margin-of-1-49-per-gallon-of-gas-in-September?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=more_community&pm_medium=web Californians are being gouged at the gas pumps as the profit margins of California’s big oil…
Dec 8, 2023By Staff Reporters, KNX – Los Angeles, CA Click below to listen to the audio of this radio broadcast segment.
Dec 7, 2023By Anne C Mulkern, E&E News Oil industry allies in California are filling television and computer screens statewide with a multimillion-dollar ad…
Dec 6, 2023By Alfred Ng, POLITICO A California consumer advocacy group wants the state’s attorney general and privacy enforcement agency to look into the…
Dec 5, 2023By Thomas Elias, MERCURY NEWS Until a consumer advocacy group used the Public Records Act to unearth previously secret files, just what…
Dec 1, 2023By Dan Walters, CAL MATTERS In the 19th century, California began experimenting with regulating the prices of vital services and commodities. Nearly…
Nov 29, 2023By Staff Reporters, KCBS – San Francisco, CA Click below to listen to the audio of this radio broadcast segment.
Nov 29, 2023By Blake Jones, POLITICO https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook-pm/2023/11/27/giving-californians-an-out-on-ai-00128791 With help from Alfred Ng TUNE IN, OPT OUT: Artificial intelligence can help decide whether you get a job…
Nov 27, 2023By Staff Reporters, KCBS – San Francisco, CA Click below to listen to the audio of this radio broadcast segment.
Nov 21, 2023Reforms labelled a “deregulation deal with insurers” By Mike Pangilinan, INSURANCE BUSINESS https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/catastrophe/california-voters-oppose-insurance-reforms-says-consumer-watchdog-467078.aspx California voters oppose proposed reforms that would provide insurance…
Nov 17, 2023By David Goll, PALO ALTO WEEKLY https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2023/11/16/how-californias-fire-insurance-woes-are-impacting-peninsula-homeowners Over the past decade, multiple destructive wildfires have ravaged California, creating an unprecedented homeowners insurance…
Nov 16, 2023By The Editorial Board, PRESS-ENTERPRISE There are new developments in some of the Los Angeles City Hall scandals, which continue to multiply…
Nov 16, 2023By Wes Venteicher, POLITICO https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-climate/2023/11/15/climate-scientists-on-strike-00127501 FIRE FIGHT: Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara’s main antagonist is out with a poll today throwing cold water on his…
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