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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...

Fracking’s Back In California

As if California has not had enough bad news, fracking is now back. The newly-named Cal-GEM or California Geologic Energy Management Division, late Friday and under the cover of...

Wildfire Legislation On Track or Train Wreck?

Can Sacramento help wildfire victims get paid without bailing out the investor-owned utilities that claim they cannot pay for all of the wildfires they start? The debate came to a...

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