Energy

The Price of Pickel: The LADWP’s Ratepayer Watchdog Comes With A $7 Billion Price Tag

March 13, 2018  ·  Liza Tucker

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is the largest, most powerful municipal utility in the country. For its first 110 years, the...

New Analysis Shows Limiting Oil Drilling In California Is Critical To GHG Emissions Cuts

February 28, 2018  ·  Liza Tucker

New analysis released today by the Stockholm Environment Institute finds that limiting oil production in California would lead to substantial greenhouse gas emission cuts at...

Consumer Watchdog Demands That State Oil Regulators Publicly Reveal Leaking California Oil Wells That Are Counted But Not Disclosed

February 28, 2018  ·  Liza Tucker

Santa Monica, CA—Consumer Watchdog urged Governor Jerry Brown to direct state oil regulators to publicly post all oil well leaks in the state after learning...

Lawyers Get The Dough And DWP Ratepayers Get The Shaft, Sound Familiar?

February 14, 2018  ·  Liza Tucker

A Superior Court Judge today approved a settlement of a class action lawsuit brought against the Department of Water & Power (DWP) and City of...

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...

Consumer Watchdog, Anti-Trust Experts Warn of Higher Prices From Disney-Fox Merger

December 15, 2017  ·  Evan Thomas King

Consumers can expect to pay more for streaming subscriptions if regulators give the greenlight to the proposed $52.4-billion merger of Disney and Fox, a consumer...

Google Home, Amazon Echo usher in an Orwellian future, consumer group warns

December 15, 2017  ·  Evan Thomas King

Amazon and Google have been heavily promoting their digital “assistants,” Google Home and Amazon Echo as ideal holiday presents and time-savers for busy families. Both...

How Google and Amazon are ‘spying’ on you

December 15, 2017  ·  Evan Thomas King

You would be forgiven for thinking that your private conversations were just that, but two leading voice assistants are listening to everything you say, a...