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Advocates from Across the State Testify in Pursuit of Medical Board...
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CA Senate Passes Gasoline Price Gouging Penalty And Oil Refinery Transparency...
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The Daily Kos – CA Senate passes gasoline price gouging penalty...
By Dan Bacher, THE DAILY KOS
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/23/2159845/-CA-Senate-passes-gasoline-price-gouging-penalty-bill-as-neighborhood-oil-drilling-permits-skyrocket
The California Senate today passed Governor Gavin Newsom’s special session bill, SBx1 2, to hold Big Oil accountable for price gouging at...
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Taxing Oil Refiners’ Profits: How To Get Back What Californians Overpay At the Pump
Pointing to windfall profits reported by California oil refiners to their investors, Consumer Watchdog issued a report showing that a windfall profits tax is...
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CNBC – Jamie Court Speaks About The Bill That Would Penalize Oil Refineries For Price Gouging
The bill would give Californians the ability to set a penalty level in which the oil refineries would pay a penalty for making too much off their per-gallon profits, the gross refining margin.
The Daily Kos – CA Senate passes gasoline price gouging penalty bill as neighborhood...
By Dan Bacher, THE DAILY KOS
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/23/2159845/-CA-Senate-passes-gasoline-price-gouging-penalty-bill-as-neighborhood-oil-drilling-permits-skyrocket
The California Senate today passed Governor Gavin Newsom’s special session bill, SBx1 2, to hold Big Oil accountable for price gouging at the gas pumps by a vote of 30 to 8....
CA Senate Passes Gasoline Price Gouging Penalty And Oil Refinery Transparency Bill, Goes to...
Sacramento, CA -- A landmark measure to rein in skyrocketing California gasoline prices has cleared the California Senate by a vote of 30 to 8. “This bill puts a watchdog over gasoline price gouging and...
Office of Governor Gavin Newsom – What They’re Saying: Governor Newsom’s Proposal to Hold...
By The Office of Governor Gavin Newsom
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/03/23/what-theyre-saying-governor-newsoms-proposal-to-hold-big-oil-accountable/
“Profits from California were 30% higher than anywhere else in the world”“We in California are systematically being gouged”“It’s a data-driven approach that couldn’t be wiser”
SACRAMENTO – As Governor Gavin...
Commissioner Lara Approves Over $1 Billion in Unjustified Auto Insurance Rate Hikes
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Price gouging Penalty Passes First Hurdle; Consumer Watchdog Testifies In Assembly About Need for...
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President of Consumer Watchdog, Jamie Court, speaks about Governor Gavin Newsom's deal with the legislature to enact a price gouging penalty on big oil companies.
Consumer Watchdog Urges California Supreme Court to Grant Review in Land Use Approval Corruption...
Think you’ve heard everything? Under a recent California Court of Appeal decision, if you wanted to drop a dime on suspected corruption over local building permits (as if that’s ever a problem…), you’d have...
The Sacramento Bee – A gas price watchdog + A ‘journalism usage fee’ +...
By Andrew Sheeler, THE SACRAMENTO BEE
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article273371015.html#storylink=cpy
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NEWSOM, DEMOCRATIC LEGISLATIVE LEADERS UNVEIL PLAN TO CREATE GAS PRICE WATCHDOG
The California Energy Commission would be empowered to levy price-gouging penalties on...
Governor and Legislature Strike Deal on Price Gouging Penalty And Oil Refiner Transparency
Making California First State In America To Rein In Oil Refiner Greed and Profiteering
Los Angeles, CA – Governor Newsom and California legislature leaders have reached a deal to push through a new oil refiner accountability...