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With deficit growing by $9.3 billion, Gov. Newsom pitches plan to float a climate bond to continue funding key projects. (opens in…
May 12, 2023
By Titus Wu, BLOOMBERG LAW https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/california-privacy-agency-faces-lobbying-in-writing-ai-rules Tech companies and privacy advocates are lobbying the California Privacy Protection Agency as it prepares to…
May 12, 2023
By Adam Beam, YAHOO! FINANCE https://finance.yahoo.com/news/environmental-group-sues-block-oil-221241683.html SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — An environmental group sued Thursday to block nearly two dozen new permits…
May 11, 2023
The Editorial Board, THE SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/editorials/story/2023-04-27/california-medical-board-reforms-doctor-discipline-bonita-case Operating under a bright spotlight, the Medical Board of California — the agency…
May 2, 2023
By Tom Kisken, VENTURA COUNTY STAR https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/local/2023/04/27/oxnard-california-parents-medical-reform-daughters-death-criminal-charges/70117200007/ Judy Gorcey wants change. Her 36-year-old daughter, Megan Espinoza, died after her heart stopped during…
Apr 27, 2023
Consumer Watchdog argues the updated law should give patients the right to know if their doctor has been accused of harming other…
Apr 25, 2023
Paul Sisson, SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/health/story/2023-04-24/big-changes-proposed-for-state-board-that-investigates-doctors-patient-notification-still-not-on-the-list The Medical Board of California may soon get a significant boost to its enforcement powers,…
Apr 24, 2023
By Nalleli Cobo, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-04-24/oil-drilling-setbacks-california-legislature I grew up 30 feet from an oil well. We couldn’t open the windows…
Apr 24, 2023
By Dan Bacher, RED, GREEN AND BLUE Meanwhile, since the beginning of this year, CalGEM, the state’s oil and gas regulator, has…
Apr 19, 2023
By Andrew Sheeler, THE SACRAMENTO BEE COALITION FORMS TO SUPPORT BILL HOLDING OIL INDUSTRY LIABLE FOR HEALTH PROBLEMS Californians who have developed…
Apr 19, 2023
By Dan Bacher, THE DAILY KOS Los Angeles, CA— Despite the constantly repeated mantra by California politicians and media talking heads that the state is the…
Apr 12, 2023
By Thomas Elias, THE UKIAH DAILY JOURNAL California’s wealthy cadre of gasoline gougers were on a major, lucrative roll. Every few months,…
Apr 11, 2023
By Emmy Freedman, LAW 360 https://www.law360.com/articles/1595196?e_id=4b8eb524-0562-40da-ba7d-4520eae82a00& CVS urged a California federal judge to toss a proposedclass action accusing it of violating the…
Apr 10, 2023
By John Baird, KNX – Los Angeles, CA Click below to listen to the audio of this radio broadcast segment.
Apr 4, 2023
By Lindsey Holden, Ari Plachta and Phillip Reese, THE SACRAMENTO BEE https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article273734515.html Five months ago, Sacramento Sen. Angelique Ashby won her election…
Mar 30, 2023
By George Skelton, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-30/column-newsom-learned-with-oil-bill-working-with-lawmakers-is-key-to-passing-laws SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom did something new — for him. He got aggressively engaged behind…
Mar 30, 2023
By Thomas Elias, The Mercury News Almost everyone who lived through California’s 2000-01 energy crisis remembers rolling brownouts and blackouts, plus thefts…
Mar 28, 2023
By The Office of Governor Gavin Newsom https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/03/28/governor-newsom-signs-gas-price-gouging-law-california-took-on-big-oil-and-won/ WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Following record gas price hikes and profits, Governor Newsom signed…
Mar 28, 2023