Blogs

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.

More Transparency For California Gas Markets

March 13, 2023  ·  Jamie Court

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...

Misnomers In Legislative Debate Over Price Gouging Penalty

March 2, 2023  ·  Jamie Court

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...

SB 1322 (Allen) Addresses Pain At The Pump

June 24, 2022  ·  Jamie Court

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...

DWP Scandal Plea Bargain Exposes Bribes, Graft and Deceit In “Chinatown”

December 3, 2021  ·  Jamie Court

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...

Mike Feuer Owes Antwon Jones An Apology And A Video Tape

January 23, 2021  ·  Jamie Court

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...

Fracking’s Back In California

April 8, 2020  ·  Jamie Court

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...

Wildfire Legislation On Track or Train Wreck?

July 9, 2019  ·  Jamie Court

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?...

California’s gas prices are ‘pure highway robbery.’ Let’s get our money back.

May 21, 2019  ·  Jamie Court

From The Sacramento Bee Californians now pay an extra $1.17 per gallon at the gas pump more than other Americans. Three to four dimes per gallon may...

After Intense Battle, Garcetti Abandons Rebuilding Gas-fired Power Plants

February 13, 2019  ·  Adam Scow

Consumer Watchdog welcomed an announcement from Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti to abandon plans to rebuild three gas-fired power plants along the Los Angeles coastline....

As Paradise Burned, 12 Legislators Partied In Maui With Utility Execs & Lobbyists

January 5, 2019  ·  Jamie Court

As wildfire victims fled for their lives in Paradise and Malibu this November, utility executives and lobbyists for California’s big utilities were wining and dining 12 influential state...

How California’s New Governor Can Become A Climate Change Warrior

January 2, 2019  ·  Liza Tucker

Governor Jerry Brown fancied himself a climate change warrior and so does Governor Elect Gavin Newsom. But if Newsom really wants to do something to...