Toxics Watchdog
California has some of the toughest environmental laws in the nation, but some of the weakest enforcement. Toxic pollution emissions to soil…
Feb 26, 2013Liza 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.
California has some of the toughest environmental laws in the nation, but some of the weakest enforcement. Toxic pollution emissions to soil…
Feb 26, 2013SANTA MONICA, CA—Senator Joel Anderson (R-San Diego) became the fourth lawmaker to respond to Consumer Watchdog’s report, Golden Wasteland, calling the Department…
Feb 25, 2013Somebody's listening.
Feb 21, 2013Los Angeles, CA — California has some of the toughest environmental laws in the nation, and some of the weakest enforcement, according…
Feb 21, 2013SANTA MONICA, CA – Consumer Watchdog today called on the Department of Toxic Substances Control to reverse its grant of a permit…
Jan 13, 2013Who would want two companies, Tesoro and Chevron, to control more than half of California's gasoline market? Only people, like oil company…
Dec 13, 2012Today, senators from California, Washington and Oregon joined our call to investigate refineries, asking the Department of Justice to comb through California…
Nov 27, 2012Santa Monica, CA – Consumer Watchdog today praised the Department of Toxic Substances Control for 72 citations of Chemical Waste Management Inc.…
Nov 17, 2012Santa Monica, CA – In a letter today, Consumer Watchdog called on California State Attorney General Kamala Harris to launch a criminal…
Nov 15, 2012As gas prices spiked in California last month to blow past even Hawaii’s highest-in-the-nation, the state’s refineries were exporting gas. That’s right,…
Nov 9, 2012If there’s one industry that has free rein in California, it’s the refinery business. California doesn’t regulate supplies of gasoline, so refineries…
Nov 1, 2012Santa Monica, CA — Consumer Watchdog sent a letter today to the head of California’s Department of Toxic Substances Control urging the…
Oct 25, 2012Proposition 33, a ballot measure funded almost exclusively by car insurance magnate George Joseph, seeks to add a new criteria to calculating…
Oct 9, 2012Remember those old, clunky TVs and computer monitors? The ones with Cathode Ray Tubes (CRTs) people threw out in favor of flat…
Oct 1, 2012Santa Monica, CA — Monday night’s explosion and hours-long fire at Chevron’s large oil refinery in Richmond, Ca., released toxic chemicals including…
Aug 7, 2012We all know that California’s budget is in bad shape. It ended the year with a cash deficit of $9.6 billion dollars,…
Aug 3, 2012If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? If a…
Jul 26, 2012There are demands emerging that the Evergreen Oil Refinery change its practices or shut down. "They seem to be a pattern of…
Jul 17, 2012