The Price of Pickel: The LADWP’s Ratepayer Watchdog Comes With A $7 Billion Price Tag
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is the largest, most powerful municipal utility in the country. For its first…
Mar 13, 2018Liza 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.
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is the largest, most powerful municipal utility in the country. For its first…
Mar 13, 2018New analysis released today by the Stockholm Environment Institute finds that limiting oil production in California would lead to substantial greenhouse gas…
Feb 28, 2018Santa Monica, CA—Consumer Watchdog urged Governor Jerry Brown to direct state oil regulators to publicly post all oil well leaks in the…
Feb 28, 2018A Superior Court Judge today approved a settlement of a class action lawsuit brought against the Department of Water & Power (DWP)…
Feb 14, 2018Santa Monica, CA — Consumer Watchdog has urged LA City Attorney Mike Feuer to oppose a deceptive and inadequate Notice to ratepayers…
Feb 13, 2018Santa Monica, CA — 30 environmental and public interest groups urged Governor Brown to articulate a new plan for keeping oil in…
Jan 23, 2018KNX 1070AM Los Angeles – Radio Interview: Liza Tucker Urges Jerry Brown to Ban Offshore Drilling January 5, 2018 Click here listen…
Jan 5, 2018Santa Monica, CA — Governor Jerry Brown should immediately stop all offshore drilling in state waters in response to President Trump’s decision…
Jan 4, 2018Carolers raised their voices before the Governor’s Mansion last night, singing “Jerry Brown Jerry Brown, Keep It In The Ground” to the…
Dec 22, 2017Santa Monica, CA—As Sempra’s Aliso Canyon natural gas reserve sprang another leak this week, reigniting nosebleeds and headaches among nearby LA County…
Dec 21, 2017Governor Jerry Brown sells himself as one of the world’s foremost climate change warriors. But as long as he protects the oil…
Dec 12, 2017Opinion: Gov. Brown Should Stop Protecting The Oil Industry By Liza Tucker, CONSUMER WATCHDOG for THE MERCURY NEWS December 3, 2017 Opinion:…
Dec 3, 2017Santa Monica, CA — Today’s vote by the Board of Water and Power Commissioners for LADWP to transfer $242 million in ratepayer…
Nov 28, 2017No matter how you look at it, from a sham trading system to “cut” climate-warming emissions to consumers gouged at the pump, Big Oil…
Nov 17, 2017Santa Monica, CA — As protestors heckled Governor Jerry Brown during his tour abroad for failing to leave oil and gas in…
Nov 13, 2017Los Angeles, CA — As California’s Governor traverses the world urging it to wake up to climate change, California’s leading consumer group…
Nov 7, 2017Consumers just scored a victory with NRG’s announcement that it is pulling the plug on a natural gas power plant in Ventura. The Houston…
Oct 17, 2017Consumers looking for bold action this year on laws protecting their wallets from rapacious drug companies, their privacy from the prying eyes…
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