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State of California Oil 2026: Accountability For Oil Companies Is So Much Bigger Than Newsom

December 29, 2025  ·  Liza Tucker

Gavin Newsom learned a lesson from Jerry Brown’s last year in office. He saw how Brown’s refusal to deal with the supply side of oil...

Trump May Do Us A Favor By Blocking One Of Newsom’s Worst “Low Carbon” Solutions

November 17, 2025  ·  Liza Tucker

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...

Fact Check: Newsom’s $60 Billion Savings From Cap-and-Trade Is A Sham

October 22, 2025  ·  Liza Tucker

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...

Big Three Deal Is Deregulation That Will Cost Consumers And Environment

September 12, 2025  ·  Jamie Court

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

Memo To California Legislators: Remember John Burton And Do The Right Thing

September 8, 2025  ·  Jamie Court

John Burton's death is reminder to us all that you can be principled and thrive in politics.John had the “Rage for Justice”

Carbon Pipeline Bills Play Roulette With Public Health, Help Big Oil 

July 15, 2025  ·  Liza Tucker

Two bills are moving through the California legislature that would lift a state moratorium on building carbon dioxide pipelines. The 2022 moratorium was imposed in...

Oilies Always Blame Government But It is Oil Refiners’ Greed That Drives Up the Price At The CA Pump

April 23, 2025  ·  Jamie Court

Since California gas prices are tipping $5 again, it’s time for the latest of oil industry boosters in the media to claim once again it’s government’s fault not the oil refiners.

Smiling For Nalleli, Ban on Community Oil Drilling Takes Effect

June 27, 2024  ·  Jamie Court

I am smiling for Nalleli Cobo today, the young activist who has spent her short life recovering from illness related to growing up 30 feet...

CA Draws Straight Line Between Low Gasoline Supplies And Price Spikes At The Pump, Maintaining 15 Days Or More Of Supply Is Sweet Spot

June 13, 2024  ·  Liza Tucker

The California Energy Commission and newly created Division of Petroleum Market Oversight provided valuable analysis at a recent workshop on the summer outlook for gasoline...

California Air Resources Board Has Some Explaining To Do Over Low Carbon Fuel Standard’s Impact on Gasoline Prices

February 26, 2024  ·  Jamie Court

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has wisely postponed a March vote on the new acceleration of the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), which is...

The Good That Came Out Of Suing the State Over Allowing Illegal Disposal Of Radioactive Waste From CA’s Most Notorious Cold War Lab: An Epitaph

August 21, 2023  ·  Liza Tucker

The Santa Susana Field Lab, nestled in the Simi Hills, is about an hour by car from downtown Los Angeles.  It is the scene of experimental...

Why CA’s Oil Refiner Accountability Law Is A Big Deal

March 29, 2023  ·  Jamie Court

For more than two decades, Californians have been plagued by chronic gasoline price spikes and a much greater gap with US gasoline prices than is justified by added taxes and environmental costs.