Latest Energy Releases

At a California Energy Commission meeting advocates expressed outrage at the oil industry’s stonewalling of reform

Los Angeles, CA--Consumer Watchdog and FracTracker Alliance said today that the latest oil and gas data confirms a long-term, irreversible trend. California's oil production is in terminal decline, and no amount of new permitting will change this regardless of the damage new drilling inflicts on transparency, climate, and public...

Trump has called climate change “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.”  His Department of Energy is acting accordingly by canceling lots of awards for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) and Direct Air Capture (DAC) projects purportedly removing carbon gases from industrial smokestacks or the air—including four so...

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Sacramento, CA – The state’s petroleum watchdog has issued its annual report validating claims that Californians have overpaid tens of billions of dollars at the pump over the last decade due to the consolidated gasoline refining industry, an estimated $59 billion in overcharges from 2015 thru 2024. The Division of Petroleum Market Oversight,...

During the signing of the reauthorization bill for cap-and-trade this year, AB 1207 (Irwin), Governor Newsom claimed the bill would result in $60 billion saved in rebates for consumers over 20 years. He has since repeated the claim to suggest his Administration was making energy more affordable.  What Newsom didn’t say...

Los Angeles, CA — The Chevron El Segundo refinery explosion and fire last week was a wakeup call that the California Energy Commission (CEC) needs to mandate minimum refinery inventory and resupply rules ASAP, Consumer Watchdog wrote in comments to the CEC. While so far consumers have dodged a big...

Los Angeles, CA – The gasoline price spike likely to be sparked by last night’s fire at the Chevron refinery in El Segundo will be exacerbated by the failure of Governor Newsom’s California Energy Commission (CEC) to enact re-supply and minimum inventory regulations in a timely way, Consumer Watchdog said.  In...

Sacramento, CA - A bipartisan group of governors are threatening to leave the East Coast grid operator PJM unless they get the right to appoint board members and the right to file tariffs with FERC.  The bill that Governor Newsom signed last week to have California participate in a Western grid,...

Los Angeles, CA—Consumer Watchdog is urging Governor Newsom to veto SB 614 (Stern), a bill that lifts a moratorium on the construction of pipelines to carry compressed carbon dioxide away from Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) projects proposed by a host of companies including big oil producers.  “Consumer Watchdog writes...

The bills Newsom is signing that his office called “big beautiful legislation that promises to lower electricity costs, stabilize the petroleum market and slash pollution”... is a sham.

California regulators have not held the largest onshore oil producer in the state, California Resources Corp., adequately financially responsible for the wells of acquired companies such as Aera Energy. Now that the company known as CRC is buying yet another rival, Bakersfield-based Berry Corp., it’s time for California to demand enough bonding to...

By Ashley Zavala SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers on Saturday are set to debate a bunch of proposals that attempt to address the cost of gas and electricity in the state while facing pushback from nearly every side of the issue.  In a year in which Democratic legislative leaders vowed to...

BY ALEJANDRO LAZO AND  JEANNE KUANG Gov. Gavin Newsom closed out the legislative year with one of the most sweeping overhauls of California’s energy and climate policies in decades — a package that could give him a presidential debate-stage talking point on rising energy costs as the Democratic Party shifts its focus to...

Governor Newsom, McGuire, and Rivas celebrated “Landmark Clean Energy, Climate and Affordability Solutions” .. It’s a load of horse poop.