9 Year-Old-Girl Scolds Jerry Brown Over Oil Drilling
Adults have gotten nowhere calling on Jerry Brown to limit oil drilling within a couple thousand feet of homes and schools. This 30 second TV...
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Consumer Advocates Thank Senate Pro Tem Toni Atkins For Standing Up to Energy Barons To Protect Consumers And The Environment
Los Angeles, CA — On the last night of the California legislative session, Senate pro Tem Toni Atkins stood up to political and industry pressure and...
Consumer and Environmental Advocates Call On Gov. Brown to Stop California Energy Transfer to Trump
SACRAMENTO, CA — Environmental and consumer advocates today urged Governor Jerry Brown to resist the threat of a Trump takeover of the California electricity grid...
Senator Dodd Busted Shutting Down Wildfire Hearings To Rush To Fundraiser With Utility Lobbyists
Sacramento, CA — Consumer Watchdog released evidence today showing that the co-chairman of the conference committee convened to discuss taking wildfire victims’ legal rights rushed witnesses to end a...
Watchdog Reveals Millions Paid By Utilities To Usurp Wildfire Victims’ Rights
SACRAMENTO, CA—Consumer Watchdog’s President Jamie Court spoke today at a rally of wildfire survivors and urged legislators not to give in to PG&E and the...
Watchdog Offers New Info That Western Power Market Plan is Enron All Over Again Without The Legal Remedy
Los Angeles, CA — As the Governor is expected to announce special deliberations on utility proposals shortly, Consumer Watchdog offered new information to the legislature...
New Map Shows Jerry Brown Has 4 Times More Offshore Oil Wells Than Trump
Los Angeles, CA — Consumer Watchdog today launched a web site that allows you to compare California offshore wells under the control of Governor Jerry Brown...
Consumer Watchdog Condemns California Senate Energy Committee Vote For Western Power Trading Casino
Los Angeles, CA — The California Senate Energy, Utilities & Communications Committee voted today to pass legislation turning California into a giant Western power trading...
Betting Against the House: How California’s Leaders Could Gamble Away Our Energy Future On A Western Power Trading Casino
1997. Today, Cavanagh is chief “green” booster of a Western power trading market, which brings back a deregulation-era law that led to California’s energy crisis.
Report Warns of Enron All Over Again As Governor Jerry Brown And Electricity Deregulation Era Fixers Poised To Rip Off California Ratepayers
Los Angeles, CA— California leaders are being pressed by former allies of Enron and energy traders who ripped off the state to gamble away California’s...
Consumer Watchdog Warns CA Legislators New Utility Bailout Will Leave Gray Davis Stain
Sacramento, CA — In a letter to the 120 members of the California legislature, Consumer Watchdog president Jamie Court warned that a bailout of California’s...
“Governor Brown, Please Step Up”: More Than 750 Public Interest Groups Call On Governor Brown To Halt New Dirty Oil And Gas Projects
Five months before Governor’s climate summit in San Francisco, climate groups call on Governor to “walk the talk” on climate and stand up to the...