News Releases

Consumer Watchdog Challenges City Attorney Mike Feuer To Stand Up For LA Ratepayers Not Politicians In DWP Transfer Case To Be Heard Wednesday

February 13, 2018  ·  Liza Tucker

Santa Monica, CA — Consumer Watchdog has urged LA City Attorney Mike Feuer to oppose a deceptive and inadequate Notice to ratepayers in a class...

30 Public Interest Groups Urge Governor Brown To Freeze State Oil Drilling

January 23, 2018  ·  Liza Tucker

Santa Monica, CA — 30 environmental and public interest groups urged Governor Brown to articulate a new plan for keeping oil in the ground as...

Consumer Watchdog Urges Gov. Brown To Halt All CA Offshore Drilling In Response To Trump Move To Open Federal Waters

January 4, 2018  ·  Liza Tucker

Santa Monica, CA — Governor Jerry Brown should immediately stop all offshore drilling in state waters in response to President Trump’s decision to vastly expand...

Carolers Condemn Brown for Climate Cowardice

December 22, 2017  ·  Liza Tucker

Carolers raised their voices before the Governor’s Mansion last night, singing “Jerry Brown Jerry Brown, Keep It In The Ground” to the tune of Jingle...

New “The Twelve Days of Jerry” Christmas Song and Animation Show Jerry Brown’s Big Polluting Gifts To Dirty Energy Industry

December 21, 2017  ·  Liza Tucker

Santa Monica, CA—As Sempra’s Aliso Canyon natural gas reserve sprang another leak this week, reigniting nosebleeds and headaches among nearby LA County residents, Consumer Watchdog...

Gov. Brown Should Stop Protecting the Oil Industry

December 12, 2017  ·  Liza Tucker

Governor Jerry Brown sells himself as one of the world’s foremost climate change warriors. But as long as he protects the oil industry, California will...

DWP Rubberstamps $242 Million Tuesday Takeaway from Ratepayers In Violation Of Their Rights

November 28, 2017  ·  Liza Tucker

Santa Monica, CA — Today’s vote by the Board of Water and Power Commissioners for LADWP to transfer $242 million in ratepayer money to the...

Consumer Watchdog Decries LADWP Transfer Of $242 Million From Ratepayers To City Budget Without Voter Approval

November 27, 2017  ·  Jamie Court

Santa Monica, CA — The Board of Water and Power Commissioners for LADWP has put on its agenda a Tuesday vote to transfer nearly $242...

Keystone Leak Shows Trump Is Keystone Cop For Heartland

November 21, 2017  ·  Jamie Court

When President Trump moved to expand the Keystone pipeline to the Gulf, we warned him that it wasn’t just a risk to the land, but the...

CA Cap-And-Trade Program Isn’t Working

November 13, 2017  ·  Liza Tucker

Santa Monica, CA — As protestors heckled Governor Jerry Brown during his tour abroad for failing to leave oil and gas in the ground, new...

Germany Could Teach Jerry Brown How To Be Greener, Consumer Watchdog Says

November 7, 2017  ·  Liza Tucker

Los Angeles, CA — As California’s Governor traverses the world urging it to wake up to climate change, California’s leading consumer group called on Brown...

Failure to adequately regulate utilities helped fuel CA wildfires

October 21, 2017  ·  Jamie Court

Originally published in the San Francisco Chronicle. Corruption can kill. The fires that laid waste to California’s Wine Country and at least 42 lives were...