Accountability

New Report: LADWP’s Ratepayer Advocate Is Costing Angelenos Nearly $7 Billion Extra And Should Be Fired

March 14, 2018  ·  Liza Tucker

Santa Monica, CA — Instead of pushing the country’s largest municipal utility to be leaner, greener, and meaner, Fred Pickel, the first ratepayer advocate ever...

The Price of Pickel: The LADWP’s Ratepayer Watchdog Comes With A $7 Billion Price Tag

March 13, 2018  ·  Liza Tucker

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is the largest, most powerful municipal utility in the country. For its first 110 years, the...

Lawyers Get The Dough And DWP Ratepayers Get The Shaft, Sound Familiar?

February 14, 2018  ·  Liza Tucker

A Superior Court Judge today approved a settlement of a class action lawsuit brought against the Department of Water & Power (DWP) and City of...

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

February 13, 2018  ·  Liza Tucker

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

Wildfires Should Ignite Crackdown on State Farm To Be Better Neighbor

December 6, 2017  ·  Jamie Court

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 try...

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

November 28, 2017  ·  Liza Tucker

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

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

November 27, 2017  ·  Jamie Court

Santa Monica, CA — The Board of Water and Power Commissioners for LADWP has put on its agenda a Tuesday vote to transfer nearly $242...

Big Oil’s Hush Money

November 17, 2017  ·  Liza Tucker

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 over...

Scrapping Of Ventura Natural Gas Plant Is A Win For Consumers

October 17, 2017  ·  Liza Tucker

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

October 17, 2017  ·  Liza Tucker

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

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

October 11, 2017  ·  Liza Tucker

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

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

October 9, 2017  ·  Liza Tucker

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 of...