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By Selena Fragassi, GO BANKING RATES September 2, 2022 https://www.gobankingrates.com/money/economy/california-governor-gavin-newsom-might-make-oil-refineries-record-their-profits-monthly/ The pain at the pump in 2022 was felt by all Americans as the…
Sep 2, 2022By JW August, TIMES OF SAN DIEGO September 1, 2022 New Legislation Will Force California Refineries to Reveal Profit Margins Gas prices…
Sep 1, 2022By Julia Wick, LOS ANGELES TIMES September 1, 2022 https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-09-01/rick-caruso-blind-trust-real-estate-company Shortly after Rick Caruso announced his run for mayor in February, he promised to…
Sep 1, 2022Opinion column by Jim Shields, MENDOCINO BEACON September 1, 2022 I’ve always thought California’s preeminent citizens’ advocacy organization is Consumer Watchdog (“CW”).…
Sep 1, 2022By Don Thompson, ASSOCIATED PRESS September 1, 2022 https://apnews.com/article/california-recycling-climate-and-environment-5764cb82719ea35ae1907934ccb4a870 SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California would add wine and distilled spirits containers to…
Sep 1, 2022By Marissa Heffernan, PLASTICS RECYCLING UPDATE August 31, 2022 Amendments to Calif. bottle expansion bill bring big changes Last-minute amendments to California…
Aug 31, 2022By Rob Nikolewski, LOS ANGELES TIMES August 31, 2022 https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-08-31/will-a-bill-just-passed-in-sacramento-solve-the-mystery-surcharge-californians-pay-at-the-gas-pump California oil refineries will be required to disclose more information about what…
Aug 31, 2022By Dustin Gardiner, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE August 30, 2022 https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Advocates-warn-bottle-recycling-bill-could-give-17408605.php?cmpid=gsa-sfgate-result California legislators are on the verge of passing a bill to…
Aug 30, 2022By Ethan Varian, MERCURY NEWS August 29, 2022 California homeowners could continue losing insurance as wildfire threat looms Almost a year to…
Aug 29, 2022By Melissa Heffernan, RESOURCE RECYCLING August 29, 2022 A last-minute twist in effort to expand California bottle bill Just days before the…
Aug 29, 2022By Stephanie Sierra, KGO ABC TV-7 San Francisco, CA August 27, 2022 https://abc7news.com/california-fair-plan-wildfire-insurance-commissioner-ricardo-lara-loophole/12173132/ SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — A state regulation aimed to help…
Aug 27, 2022By Harriet Ryan, LOS ANGELES TIMES August 24. 2022 https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-08-24/troubled-state-bar-gives-top-official-43-000-raise The State Bar of California, under scrutiny for long-standing failures in protecting…
Aug 24, 2022Column by Tom Elias, VENTURA COUNTY STAR August 23, 2022 https://www.vcstar.com/story/opinion/2022/08/23/oil-companies-gouge-us-california-sb-1322-could-bring-accountability/7865035001/ The cheating, price-gouging refiners who produce most California gasoline have won…
Aug 23, 2022By Cari Spencer, KCET PBS-TV Southern California August 16, 2022 https://www.kcet.org/news-community/can-california-redeem-its-landfill-crisis-despite-declining-recycling-rates Last year, Californians sent 4.2 billion more cans and bottles to landfills…
Aug 16, 2022By Andrew Sheeler, Lindsey Holden, and Stephen Hobbs, SACRAMENTO BEE – CAPITOL ALERT August 16, 2022 https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article264432901.html Assemblyman Jordan Cunningham, R-San Luis…
Aug 16, 2022By Wes Venteicher, SACRAMENTO BEE August 15, 2022 https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article264461831.html California state agencies will be able to keep deleting emails and other documents…
Aug 15, 2022By Lurah Lowery, REPAIRER DRIVEN NEWS August 15, 2022 CSAA sued for continuing to charge ‘excessive’ premiums throughout pandemic A class action lawsuit…
Aug 15, 2022By Marisa Endicott, SANTA ROSA PRESS-DEMOCRAT August 13, 2022 https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/another-sonoma-county-recycling-center-is-closing-leaving-consumers-with-e/ It soon will get even harder to score a bit of extra…
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