How Green Is Jerry Brown?
This review fact-checks the perception of Jerry Brown as an environmentalist against his actions since taking office as Governor in 2011 to answer the question:...
Reports
Brown’s Dirty Hands
Governor Jerry Brown paints himself a foe of climate change. But an exhaustive review of company donations, publicly released emails and documents at http://www.PUCPapers.org, and...
Against The Tide: How Missing Tankers Pumped Up Gas Prices and Refiner Profits
Consumer Watchdog analyzed data from the shipping market and state sources to study the impact of gasoline imports and exports on gas prices in California...
Keystone XL: Oil Industry Cash Machine
Consumer Watchdog investigated the impact of the Keystone XL Pipeline on gasoline prices and consumers. is analysis by Judy Dugan and Tim Hamilton utilized industry...
Oil Slicked: How Refiners Spend Millions to Protect Billions in Record Profits.
Californians have paid $7.5 billion more than they should have for their gasoline since California’s record gasoline price spike began in February of 2015, according...
Golden State Gouge: The Summer of Record Refining Profits
In the six months since California’s record gasoline price spike began in February, Californians have paid $4.8 billion more than the rest of the country...
Refining Profits: How Californians Get Fleeced at the Pump
This analysis, “Refining Profits,” looks at how oil refiners in California fared over the last decade in their refining operaDons and compared the companies’ refining...
Price Spiked: How Oil Refiners Gouge Californians on their Gasoline and What it Costs
Californians have perennially experienced steep gasoline price spikes since 1999 when California’s Attorney General formed a Gasoline Pricing Taskforce that identified market consolidation and limited...
Pump Jacking California’s Climate Protection: The Threat Of Oil Industry Influence & Market Manipulation
Internal documents obtained from the oil industry’s lobbying arm, the Western States Petroleum Association, show that the companies have made stopping California’s landmark climate change...
Inside Job: How Boeing Fixers Captured Regulators And Derailed A Nuclear And Chemical Cleanup in LA’s Backyard
The California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) has been a historically troubled agency, far too often failing to effectively fulfill its mission of protecting...
Golden Wasteland: Regulating Toxics or Toxic Regulation
California produces more than four billion pounds of hazardous waste every year. That’s enough to fill 727 Olympic-sized pools. At least one hundred thousand businesses, from...
Valero Energy and Its California Profit Pipeline
A review of profit, shareholder and government reports from the last decade show that Valero reaped extraordinary profits from its refining operations in the Golden...