Energy

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...

Google and Amazon really DO want to spy on you: Patent reveals future versions of their voice assistants will record your conversations to sell you products

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...

Driverless cars won’t need backup drivers in California next year

December 15, 2017  ·  Evan Thomas King

A white Toyota Highlander rigged with cameras and sensors winds through San Francisco’s Financial District. It eases into an intersection, checks for pedestrians and allows oncoming...

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...