Energy

CA Oversight Report Shows Decade of Gasoline Price Gouging

October 24, 2025  ·  Jamie Court

Sacramento, CA – The state’s petroleum watchdog has issued its annual report validating claims that Californians have overpaid tens of billions of dollars at the pump over the...

Fact Check: Newsom’s $60 Billion Savings From Cap-and-Trade Is A Sham

October 22, 2025  ·  Liza Tucker

During the signing of the reauthorization bill for cap-and-trade this year, AB 1207 (Irwin), Governor Newsom claimed the bill would result in $60 billion saved...

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...

KCRA – Gas, electricity costs to take center stage at the California state capitol on Saturday

September 14, 2025  ·  Consumer Watchdog

By Ashley Zavala SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers on Saturday are set to debate a bunch of proposals that attempt to address the cost of...

CalMatters – Lawmakers send Newsom a high-stakes energy overhaul tied to wildfires, utilities and oil

September 14, 2025  ·  Consumer Watchdog

BY ALEJANDRO LAZO AND  JEANNE KUANG Gov. Gavin Newsom closed out the legislative year with one of the most sweeping overhauls of California’s energy and climate policies in...

Big Three Deal Is Deregulation That Will Cost Consumers And Environment

September 12, 2025  ·  Jamie Court

Governor Newsom, McGuire, and Rivas celebrated “Landmark Clean Energy, Climate and Affordability Solutions” .. It’s a load of horse poop. 

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...