Uber Needs to Disclose To Shareholders Its Executive’s Conflict Of Interest On Contingency Fee Ballot Measure, Ties To Dana Williamson Scandal

Los Angeles Times Pulitzer Prize-winning Columnist Michael Hiltzik: Uber is trying to snow voters with a supposedly pro-consumer ballot initiative. Don’t buy it

Consumer Alert Warns CA Voters Not To Sign Uber’s ‘License to Kill’ Ballot Measure: Uber Reviving Deadly Robotaxis In Conjunction With Proposal For Loss...

Latest Accountability Releases

Consumer Watchdog Challenges City Attorney Mike Feuer To Stand Up For LA Ratepayers Not Politicians In DWP Transfer Case To Be Heard Wednesday

Liza Tucker - February 13, 2018

Santa Monica, CA — Consumer Watchdog has urged LA City Attorney Mike Feuer to oppose a deceptive and inadequate Notice to ratepayers in a...

Wildfires Should Ignite Crackdown on State Farm To Be Better Neighbor

Jamie Court - December 6, 2017

The wildfires devastating Bel Air, Ventura and Southern California's canyons are destroying homes in their path. Unfortunately, many of those homeowners are going to find that when they...

DWP Rubberstamps $242 Million Tuesday Takeaway from Ratepayers In Violation Of Their Rights

Liza Tucker - November 28, 2017

Santa Monica, CA -- Today’s vote by the Board of Water and Power Commissioners for LADWP to transfer $242 million in ratepayer money to...

Consumer Watchdog Decries LADWP Transfer Of $242 Million From Ratepayers To City Budget Without Voter Approval

Jamie Court - November 27, 2017

Santa Monica, CA — The Board of Water and Power Commissioners for LADWP has put on its agenda a Tuesday vote to transfer nearly...

Big Oil’s Hush Money

Liza Tucker - November 17, 2017

No matter how you look at it, from a sham trading system to "cut" climate-warming emissions to consumers gouged at the pump, Big Oil has us...

Scrapping Of Ventura Natural Gas Plant Is A Win For Consumers

Liza Tucker - October 17, 2017

Consumers just scored a victory with NRG's announcement that it is pulling the plug on a natural gas power plant in Ventura. The Houston utility had contracted...

The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly From Brown’s Pen

Liza Tucker - October 17, 2017

Consumers looking for bold action this year on laws protecting their wallets from rapacious drug companies, their privacy from the prying eyes of telecom...

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti Just Sold Los Angeles Down The Aqueduct

Liza Tucker - October 11, 2017

Mayor Eric Garcetti just sold out Los Angeles by pushing through the Delta Tunnels. Two of his five appointees to the Metropolitan Water District...

Seriously, Will Governor Sign A Bill Benefitting Just One Developer And His Sister?

Liza Tucker - October 9, 2017

Every day, we have been scanning Governor Jerry Brown’s legislative updates. So far, he hasn’t signed SB 634, a bill with the innocuous, sleepy-sounding name...

CAN THE PICKEL!

John Ennis - September 27, 2017

If Fred Pickel is supposed to be the public's Ratepayer Advocate against LADWP, he sure hasn't been acting like it.

Consumer Advocacy Groups Want LADWP’s Official Watchdog Fired. Here’s Why

Mark Reback - September 20, 2017

Several groups have gathered at Los Angeles City Hall today to call for the firing of an official watchdog charged with fighting for the...

Consumer Watchdog Kicks Off Campaign To Fire LADWP Ratepayer Advocate Fred Pickel

Liza Tucker - September 18, 2017

Santa Monica, CA — Consumer Watchdog, Food & Water Watch, DWP ratepayers and other advocacy groups rally today in front of City Hall to...

Consumer Watchdog Calls On LA City Council To Fire LADWP Ratepayer Advocate Based On His Backing Of Delta Tunnels

Liza Tucker - August 29, 2017

Los Angeles, CA -- The Los Angeles City Council should reject a recommendation by Fred Pickel, Director of the Office of Public Accountability at...

Consumer Watchdog Calls On LA City Council President To Appoint Consumer Advocate To Find Next Ratepayer Advocate, Says Pickel Failed LADWP Customers

Liza Tucker - July 25, 2017

Santa Monica, CA---Consumer Watchdog today urged City Council President Herb Wesson to name a consumer advocate to the citizens’ committee that will nominate the...

Amazon Slime: Amazon’s New Consumer Deception

John M. Simpson - June 12, 2017

Two Consumer Watchdog reports show that Amazon is deceiving its customers by putting fake crossed-out prices next to its products. It’s a deceptive marketing...

April 27th Letters: Let the sunshine in on PUCâ€™s San Onofre deal

Mark Reback - April 27, 2017

Let the sunshine in on PUC’s San Onofre deal

The California Public Utilities Commission votes Thursday on releasing vital records showing whether the government secretly helped Southern California Edison stick ratepayers with 70 percent of a $4.7 billion bill for the flawed San Onofre nuclear power plant.

FTC To Focus on Consumer Injury, Minimizing Paperwork Requests to Companies

Evan Thomas King - February 2, 2017

Washington --The Federal Trade Commission will focus on fraud and be judicious in making paperwork requests when it opens an investigation into a company, acting FTC Chairman Maureen Ohlhausen said in a speech on Thursday.

LADWP Customer Bill Of Rights Nothing But Paper Without Overhaul Of Utility Bureaucracy And Independent Ratepayer Voice To Hold DWP Accountable

Liza Tucker - January 3, 2017

Santa Monica, CA -- The LADWP’s pledge to give customers a bill of rights is a step forward, but the LADWP remains in need of a major bureaucratic overhaul, Consumer Watchdog said today.

Consumer Watchdog Tells LA Mayor That Ratepayers Should Be Paid Interest On Money DWP Owes in Overbilling Scandal And Calls For Transparency About DWP...

Liza Tucker - November 17, 2016

Santa Monica, CA -- Consumer Watchdog wrote Mayor Eric Garcetti today that last-minute revisions to a DWP ratepayer overbilling settlement now boost attorneys’ fees 46 percent to $19 million from $13 million, but shortchange ratepayers who should be paid interest on refunds owed them for three years.