California Assembly Stops Bottle Deposit Bill Fix For 2021 As Redemption Rate Drops to 56%
Los Angeles, CA—The California Assembly refused to act on a budget proposal put forth by the Senate to shore up Californian’s collapsing…
Sep 8, 2021Liza 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.
Los Angeles, CA—The California Assembly refused to act on a budget proposal put forth by the Senate to shore up Californian’s collapsing…
Sep 8, 2021Los Angeles, CA — Permit approvals to drill or rework new oil wells fell by 64% in the first six months of…
Jul 26, 2021Los Angeles, CA—The denial by the California Geologic Energy Management Division of 21 Aera Energy fracking permits is a win for public…
Jul 9, 2021Los Angeles, CA — Legislation backed by the waste hauling industry and authored by Santa Monica Assembly Member Richard Bloom would make…
Jun 29, 2021This exposé explores the reasons for the failure of California’s bottle deposit system, which currently has a 57% redemption rate, and puts the…
May 26, 2021Los Angeles, CA— A muckraking report on the reasons for the failure of California’s bottle deposit system, which currently has a 57%…
May 26, 2021Los Angeles, CA — Nancy Hannickel, 75, a long-time resident of West Los Angeles, has bags of thousands of bottles and cans…
May 25, 2021Los Angeles, CA — Governor Newson’s ban on fracking in 2024 is a step in the right direction, and with the number…
Apr 23, 2021Op-Ed Commentary by Liza Tucker, Consumer Watchdog for The Mercury News March 13, 2021 Opinion: Why Californians don’t get their bottle and…
Mar 14, 2021Los Angeles, CA— With redemption centers closing at a record pace, now major supermarket chains that must choose to either redeem bottle…
Mar 11, 2021Los Angeles, CA — Consumer Watchdog today welcomed newly introduced state legislation—SB 467—to ban fracking and a host of other more commonly…
Feb 17, 2021Los Angeles, CA — The latest data on the bottle and can redemption rate for 2020 for the first eleven months, put out by…
Feb 11, 2021Los Angeles, CA — California oil regulators more than doubled the dispensing of permits in 2020 to drill new oil and gas…
Jan 19, 2021Los Angeles, CA — Between July and September of 2020, the rate of consumer redemption of empty beverage containers fell another two…
Dec 7, 2020Los Angeles, CA — Oil companies received 160% more oil production drilling permits in the first nine months of 2020 over the…
Nov 19, 2020Los Angeles, CA—State data show that California consumers left $60 million in unredeemed bottle and can deposits with the state in the…
Oct 26, 2020Los Angeles, CA — The Newsom Administration issued six more fracking permits to Aera Energy late on Friday afternoon at a time…
Oct 19, 2020Los Angeles, CA — Consumer Watchdog and the FracTracker Alliance challenged the state’s Oil and Gas Supervisor Uduak-Joe Ntuk “to be honest with the public…
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