The top U.S. highway safety regulator, Mark Rosekind, last month said of self-driving cars: “We are literally seeing the future being created…
Aug 18, 2016Uber Technologies Inc. expanded its push to develop self-driving cars on Thursday, announcing its acquisition of driverless truck firm Ottomotto LLC and a…
Aug 18, 2016Uber will use Volvo’s cars for its next stage of self-driving development
Aug 18, 2016Consumer Watchdog presented in front of the Petroleum Market Advisory Committee on California's high gas prices. Jamie Court showed that high prices…
Aug 16, 2016The Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA), the most powerful corporate lobbying group in Sacramento, continued to dominate the lobbying spending in Sacramento…
Aug 16, 2016On a cloudy Sacramento day in 2001, a low-level aide to then-Gov. Gray Davis secretly met a representative of the Oracle Corp.…
Aug 15, 2016Gasoline is cheap in California compared to a year ago. But it's nowhere near as cheap as it could be. Californians currently…
Aug 15, 2016In over 30 years of covering fish, water, conservation and environmental justice in California, this is one of the most significant and…
Aug 15, 2016Governor's office says his environmental record makes advocacy group's claims 'cuckoo' A Santa Monica consumer group is criticizing Gov. Jerry Brown for…
Aug 11, 2016Californians pride themselves on being number one. Highest population. Biggest economy. Top public university system. Most In-N-Out locations per capita. Let us…
Aug 11, 2016For the fourth consecutive year, we write this editorial. Since we started, thousands of Californians have died from prescription opioid drug overdoses.…
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Aug 10, 2016Public interest group Consumer Watchdog today reported that twenty-six energy companies including the state’s three major investor-owned utilities, Occidental, Chevron, and NRG—all…
Aug 10, 2016http://consumerwatchdog.org/dirtyhands — Gov. Jerry Brown talks a lot about climate change, yet rakes in millions from fossil fuel companies.
Aug 10, 2016Twenty-six companies with business before the state donated $9.8 million to Gov. Jerry Brown and the California Democratic Party over the last…
Aug 10, 2016With two federal safety investigations already underway in the U.S., Tesla Motors could face scrutiny in China, as well, in the wake…
Aug 10, 2016An advocacy group on Thursday blasted profit reports from California's oil refiners, saying there's a huge discrepancy between wholesale and retail prices…
Aug 9, 2016A judge has recommended that State Farm refund tens of millions of dollars to its California customers and lower its rates after finding that…
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