News Releases

Consumer Watchdog Tells CA Energy Commission It’s Got What It Needs to Set Refinery Minimum Inventory and Resupply Rules ASAP

October 9, 2025  ·  Jamie Court

Los Angeles, CA — The Chevron El Segundo refinery explosion and fire last week was a wakeup call that the California Energy Commission (CEC) needs...

Chevron Fire’s Gasoline Price Spike Could Be Exacerbated By Newsom Administration’s Foot-dragging On Re-Supply And Minimum Inventory Regulations 

October 3, 2025  ·  Jamie Court

Los Angeles, CA – The gasoline price spike likely to be sparked by last night’s fire at the Chevron refinery in El Segundo will be exacerbated...

Bipartisan Governors Shapiro and Youngkin Threaten To Leave East Coast Grid Unless They Get Governance Rights That AB 825’s Western Grid Law Denies To California

September 25, 2025  ·  Jamie Court

Sacramento, CA – A bipartisan group of governors are threatening to leave the East Coast grid operator PJM unless they get the right to appoint board...

Consumer Watchdog Urges Governor, Now in NYC for Climate Week, To Be A Climate Leader By Vetoing Dangerous Carbon Dioxide Pipeline Legislation

September 23, 2025  ·  Liza Tucker

Los Angeles, CA—Consumer Watchdog is urging Governor Newsom to veto SB 614 (Stern), a bill that lifts a moratorium on the construction of pipelines to...

Consumer Alert Video Challenges Newsom’s “Big Beautiful Climate And Energy Affordability” Bill Signing As Sham: Like “Calling A Smog Alert A Breath of Fresh Air”

September 19, 2025  ·  Jamie Court

The bills Newsom is signing that his office called “big beautiful legislation that promises to lower electricity costs, stabilize the petroleum market and slash pollution”... is a sham.

Now That California Resources Corp. Will Buy Rival Berry Corp., It’s Time for Newsom to Demand Full Bonding to Avoid Taxpayers Holding the Bag

September 17, 2025  ·  Liza Tucker

California regulators have not held the largest onshore oil producer in the state, California Resources Corp., adequately financially responsible for the wells of acquired companies such as...

Gut and Amended Western Grid Electricity Deregulation Bill Jettisons Guardrails Put In By Senate And Exposes CA To Price Gouging And Coal Power

September 10, 2025  ·  Jamie Court

Sacramento, CA  — Eleventh-hour California legislation creating a regional grid eliminates all the guardrails added by the Senate and opens California consumers to price gouging, having to pay for coal power and federal preemption...

Oil Lobbyists Demand No Setback In Carbon Pipeline Legislation, Threatening Public

September 5, 2025  ·  Liza Tucker

Los Angeles, CA—Two oil and gas lobbyists are refusing to have included into two carbon pipeline bills legislative language creating a safe buffer zone between...

Watchdog Urges Against CA End-of-Session Power Grab To Increase Energy Costs And Benefit Prop 50 Donors As “Betrayal of the Electorate”

September 2, 2025  ·  Jamie Court

Sacramento, CA —  Consumer Watchdog warned California legislative leaders that ignoring legislative rules and racing through a utility-backed regional electricity deregulation plan in the last ten days...

Newsom’s Energy Commission Freezes Price Gouging Penalty, Leaves Consumers Open to Gasoline Price Spikes

August 29, 2025  ·  Jamie Court

Sacramento, CA – The Newsom Administration’s California Energy Commission voted to freeze for five years deliberations on a gasoline price gouging penalty promised by Governor...

Public Interest Groups To Legislators: Don’t Let Newsom Sell Out Real Utility Rate Reforms In Eleventh Hour Deal For Utility-backed Western Grid Proposal And Wildfire Fund

August 28, 2025  ·  Jamie Court

Sacramento, CA — Consumer and environmental groups have written California legislative leaders taking issue with Governor Newsom’s latest claim that a Western grid is “our best...

Watchdog Calls on Gov and CEC To Not Betray Stated Values And To Preserve the Gasoline Price Gouging Penalty To Prevent Price Spikes

August 27, 2025  ·  Jamie Court

Sacramento, CA – Consumer Watchdog wrote Governor Newsom and the Vice Chair of the California Energy Commission (CEC) Siva Gunda today to remind them of their...