Liza Tucker is a consumer advocate for Consumer Watchdog, following everything from oil and gas to the regulation of toxic substances in the state of California. She comes to us from Marketplace, the largest U.S. broadcast show on business and economics heard by ten million listeners each week on 400 radio stations. Liza worked at this public radio show for a decade, first as Commentary Editor and then as Senior Editor for both Washington and Sustainability News.
Today, senators from California, Washington and Oregon joined our call to investigate refineries, asking the Department of Justice to comb through California…
Nov 27, 2012
Santa Monica, CA – Consumer Watchdog today praised the Department of Toxic Substances Control for 72 citations of Chemical Waste Management Inc.…
Nov 17, 2012
Santa Monica, CA – In a letter today, Consumer Watchdog called on California State Attorney General Kamala Harris to launch a criminal…
Nov 15, 2012
As 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, 2012
If 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, 2012
Santa Monica, CA — Consumer Watchdog sent a letter today to the head of California’s Department of Toxic Substances Control urging the…
Oct 25, 2012
Remember those old, clunky TVs and computer monitors? The ones with Cathode Ray Tubes (CRTs) people threw out in favor of flat…
Oct 1, 2012
Santa 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, 2012
If 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
California produces more than four billion pounds of hazardous waste every year. That’s enough to fill 727 Olympic-sized pools. At least one…
Feb 9, 2011
Crude oil prices, gasoline prices, and consumer protection Read the report here.
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