Judy Dugan

Justin Kloczko writes about tech, energy and insurance for Consumer Watchdog. He’s covered privacy issues extensively, including data collection, privacy rights and legislation, artificial intelligence, algorithms, and surveillance pricing.
 
He’s a recovering daily newspaper reporter with experience covering local government, education, and the criminal justice system at the Hartford Advocate, Middletown Press, and  Manchester Journal Inquirer. His work has appeared in Vice, Daily Beast, The New Republic, KCRW and Los Angeles Magazine.
 
While covering civil litigation at the Los Angeles Daily Journal he won LA Press Club awards for his stories detailing corruption at the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office and the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power. The stories led to the criminal prosecutions of multiple city officials. Justin also authored The Debaser, an independent newsletter about LA culture and politics that garnered him an appearance on the ABC/Hulu documentary about disgraced plaintiff’s attorney Tom Girardi called “The Housewife and the Hustler.”
Reports

Cleaner & Cheaper:A Handbook of Transportation and Related Energy Choices 2009 and Beyond

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This handbook offers solutions for the most visible and perva- sive sector of the current oil/environmental crisis: transportation by automobile. Americans travel more than...
Energy

The Players Club

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Politics has long been the playground of millionaires. This election, however, the billionaires have taken over the table. According to Judy Dugan, research director of the nonpartisan Consumer Watchdog in Santa Monica, T. Boone Pickens' company controls 70 percent of the compressed natural gas sold in the United States and would stand to make a fortune fueling the newly subsidized trucks and cars.

Insurance

Arnold stands up for taxpayers. Seriously.

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Taxpayers can breathe a sigh of relief, after that look of puzzlement, over the budget deal that state lawmakers apparently struck with Governor Schwarzenegger tonight.

The...

Insurance

Death of the corporation tax

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This warning -- "Death of the Corporation Tax” is part of the Budget Deal -- kicks off a press release I just got from our friends at the California Tax Reform Association about the new smoke and mirrors budget...

Reports

The Causes And Effects Of The Record Breaking Price Of Diesel

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Diesel fuel is the engine of American commerce and public life. Oil companies, by manipulat- ing supply, put sugar in the tank of a...
Energy

Occidental’s Profit Soars 53% to Record High on Surging Oil Prices

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Buoyed by booming energy prices and output, Westwood-based Occidental Petroleum Corp. said Thursday that first-quarter profit leaped 53% to an all-time high.

Analysts predicted continuing good fortune for the company but...

Energy

Consumers boil over oil profits

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Ventura County Star (California)
February 2, 2008

by Jenni Mintz, Ventura County Star

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Energy

Consumers boil over oil profits

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Ventura County Star (California)

"Oil companies blame energy markets for high crude prices, but they profit immensely from these markets and oppose controlling them," said Judy Dugan with the Foundation for Taxpayer & Consumer Rights. "The government has to get some control over these unregulated electronic energy trading markets. Oil companies are spending billions of dollars buying back their own stock instead of investing in renewable energy or their own refineries, which, is the very definition of greed without regard for corporate responsibility," said Dugan.

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