Los Angeles Sees Highest Gas Price Spike in State – $1.03 In One Month
Santa Monica, CA – Consumer Watchdog today reiterated calls for an increase in the state’s oil reserves as Los Angeles gas prices…
Mar 3, 2015Liza Tucker is a Consumer Advocate for Consumer Watchdog, following everything from California’s regulation of oil and gas to toxic substances.
Prior to joining Consumer Watchdog, she worked for a decade at Marketplace Radio, the largest, most-listened-to business and economics broadcast show in the U.S. airing on hundreds of public radio stations nationwide. She served as an editor and producer for both Washington and Sustainability news.
Prior to that, Liza worked as a staff writer for the Washington Post and freelanced her way through the fall of the Soviet Union for the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek and Time Magazine. She has also worked as a consultant, teacher, and translator from Russian to English. She holds a B.A. from Oberlin College and an M.F.A. from Columbia School of the Arts. She lives in Los Angeles.
Santa Monica, CA – Consumer Watchdog today reiterated calls for an increase in the state’s oil reserves as Los Angeles gas prices…
Mar 3, 2015Santa Monica, CA -- Consumer Watchdog said today that prices per regular gallon of gas in California were up an unprecedented 96…
Mar 2, 2015Santa, Monica CA—Gas prices have jumped up 80 cents a gallon in California since refinery shutdowns and slowdowns began on February 1,…
Feb 27, 2015Santa Monica, CA – Consumer Watchdog said today that the retail price per gallon of gas in California has soared 53 cents…
Feb 23, 2015Santa Monica, CA -- Consumer Watchdog said today that the spot price of gas leapt a dime overnight, as the group had…
Feb 19, 2015Today’s explosion at the Torrance refinery couldn’t come at a better time—for refiners interested in driving up the price of gas.
Feb 18, 2015Santa Monica, CA—Responding to a shutdown of two refineries that produce 16 percent of the state’s gasoline, Consumer Watchdog called on state…
Feb 18, 2015If you think the environmental news in California is depressing with the latest fiasco of regulators allowing oil companies to re-inject wastewater…
Feb 14, 2015Santa Monica, CA—Consumer Watchdog today sent a letter to California Attorney General Kamala Harris and Robert Weisenmiller, Chair of the California Energy…
Feb 6, 2015Santa Monica, CA — Far from turning over a new leaf, the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) listed eight violations inspectors…
Jan 28, 2015Santa Monica, CA -- Sacramento Superior Court has denied Boeing’s motion for summary judgment in a California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) lawsuit…
Jan 12, 2015Internal documents obtained from the oil industry’s lobbying arm, the Western States Petroleum Associa8on, show that the companies have made stopping California’s…
Dec 15, 2014Santa Monica, CA—Consumer Watchdog urged Governor Brown today to rethink his appointment of Barbara Lee as the new director of the Department…
Nov 20, 2014Santa Monica, CA - TV stations in a dozen California markets skipped coverage of consumer friendly Propositions 45 and 46, despite the…
Nov 4, 2014Santa Monica, CA – Consumer Watchdog today warned voters that insurance companies had spent more than $100 million on deceptive advertising opposing…
Nov 3, 2014SANTA MONICA—Spanish language newspaper La Opinion endorsed Prop 45 over the weekend joining more than a dozen other newspapers supporting Yes on…
Oct 28, 2014SANTA MONICA, CA – Health Insurer HealthNet has chipped in nearly $5 million to defeat Prop 45 in a sign that the…
Oct 16, 2014SANTA MONICA, CA –Consumer Watchdog and the Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice today asked Governor Jerry Brown and California EPA…
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