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Smiling For Nalleli, Ban on Community Oil Drilling Takes Effect
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 from an oil well...
CA Draws Straight Line Between Low Gasoline Supplies And Price Spikes At The Pump, Maintaining 15 Days Or More Of Supply Is Sweet Spot
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 prices. It all boils...
California Air Resources Board Has Some Explaining To Do Over Low Carbon Fuel Standard’s Impact on Gasoline Prices
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 designed to decrease the...
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...
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 nuclear reactor testing and...
Why CA’s Oil Refiner Accountability Law Is A Big Deal
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.
More Transparency For California Gas Markets
This morning the Los Angeles Times published my commentary on why we need more transparency in California’s gas markets. Let's hope the powers that be in Sacramento and Washington...
Misnomers In Legislative Debate Over Price Gouging Penalty
When the California Senate Energy Committee took on the price gouging penalty for the first time recently, economists with a track record working for the oil industry tried to muddy the waters on...
SB 1322 (Allen) Addresses Pain At The Pump
Monday, in the Natural Resources Committee, California Assembly Members will have the opportunity to answer the top question on their constituents' minds: why is the price of California gasoline...
DWP Scandal Plea Bargain Exposes Bribes, Graft and Deceit In “Chinatown”
Six years ago, at a press conference on the court house steps, I got into a pushing match with an Ohio attorney who I called out for a sweet...
Mike Feuer Owes Antwon Jones An Apology And A Video Tape
The lawsuit filed in federal court on behalf of Antwon Jones, who was the average man caught in the middle of a fraud on the court over the LA...
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