Energy

Medical Malpractice Issue Again Hits California Capitol

August 4, 2013  ·  Mark Reback

<p>One of the Capitol's longest-running battles – over the state's $250,000 cap on pain and suffering damages in medical malpractice lawsuits – is heating up again.</p> <p>Consumer Attorneys of California, whose members press malpractice suits, wants the Legislature to lift the cap or repeal it.</p>

Battle Lines Drawn In Fight To Raise Malpractice Awards

July 25, 2013  ·  Mark Reback

<p><strong>The fight to lift the 40-year-old cap on pain and suffering damages is headed for voters, unless the Legislature can help find a compromise. But that seems unlikely.</strong></p>

Sacramento Bee Op-Ed: Another View: Toxic Waste Watchdog Rewards Serial Polluter

July 21, 2013  ·  Mark Reback

<p>The state's top toxics regulator just pulled a fast one on a farming community suffering birth defects and infant deaths.</p> <p>The Department of Toxic Substances Control signaled it would grant a serial toxic polluter – Chemical Waste Management – a permit to expand its operations greatly at the controversial Kettleman City hazardous waste dump.</p>

Report Says Keystone XL Will Increase Gas Prices

July 18, 2013  ·  Mark Reback

<p>YORK -- The Keystone XL pipeline will raise gasoline prices in the United States, hiking prices at the pump 20 to 40 cents per gallon in the Midwest, with no long-term economic benefit to the U.S. economy, says a new report by Consumer Watchdog.</p> <p>The independent agency’s report, released this week, concluded that the “Midwest’s gas prices could increase anywhere from 20 to 40 cents per gallon if the Keystone XL goes through.”</p> <p>The Watchdog report found that:</p>

Report: Midwest Gas Prices Would Rise If Keystone Pipeline Is Built

July 16, 2013  ·  Mark Reback

<p>The Keystone XL pipeline, if built, would cause gas prices in the Kansas City area and the rest of the Midwest to rise by as much as 40 cents per gallon, according to a report being released Tuesdayday by a consumer group.</p> <p>Consumer Watchdog, a California group that has released numerous reports over the years about the petroleum industry, claims the pipeline will restrict oil supplies in the U.S. as exporting to other countries picks up.</p> <p>The result: rising oil prices with the ripple effect extending to gas and diesel prices.</p>

Debate Heats Up Over Keystone Pipeline’s Gas Price Impact

July 16, 2013  ·  Mark Reback

<p><img class=" alignright size-full wp-image-10212" alt="" class="right" src="http://consumerwatchdog.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/images_kxlmap.jpg" style="width: 271px; height: 477px; margin-left: 7px; margin-right: 7px; float: right;" width="300" height="528" />Midwest motorists will pay 20 cents to 40 cents more per gallon at the gasoline pump if the disputed Keystone XL pipeline is built, an activist group contends in a report released today.</p> <p>The new pipeline and existing lines would transport tar sands crude oil from Canada to Texas Gulf Coast refineries.</p>

Consumer Watchdog Report Shows Keystone XL Raises American Gas Prices

July 16, 2013  ·  Mark Reback

<p><strong>Midwest Pump Prices Hardest Hit By Pipeline Development</strong></p> <p>The Keystone XL pipeline will raise gasoline prices in the United States, hiking prices at the pump 20 to 40 cents per gallon in the Midwest, with no long-term economic benefit to the U.S. economy, says a new report by Consumer Watchdog.</p> <p>The report finds that:</p>

Watchdog Group: Pipeline Will Boost Midwest Gas Prices

July 16, 2013  ·  Mark Reback

<p>Consumer Watchdog upped the ante on Tuesday on previous claims that construction of the Keystone XL pipeline will drive up the cost of gasoline in Nebraska and the rest of the Midwest.</p> <p>Price increases of 25-40 cents are likely if the pipeline is built between oil deposits in Alberta and refineries along the U.S. Gulf Coast, warned the nonprofit public interest group in a new report that also called the controversial project “an oil industry cash machine.”</p>

Keystone Pipeline May Add 40 Cents To Midwest Gas Prices, Report Says

July 16, 2013  ·  Mark Reback

<p>The fiercely debated Keystone XL pipeline could raise gasoline prices in the Midwest by as much as 40 cents a gallon, according to a new report by Consumer Watchdog.</p> <p>That’s because the pipeline would allow oil companies in Canada to export crude oil to a range of markets in the U.S. and abroad, leading to possible increases in the prices paid in areas that are already heavily dependent on that oil, according to the Santa Monica consumer group’s report released Tuesday.</p>

New Report Confirms Keystone XL Boosts Exports to China and Midwest Gasoline Price

July 16, 2013  ·  Mark Reback

<p>Consumer Watchdog <a href="http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/newsrelease/consumer-watchdog-report-shows-keystone-xl-raises-american-gas-prices">posts a new report</a> confirming pretty much everything I've told you about the Keystone XL pipeline: it will send North American tar sands oil overseas, raise our oil prices, and boost Big Oil profits at our expense.</p>

Keystone XL Pipeline Would Boost Gas Prices, Leave KC ‘Vulnerable’

July 16, 2013  ·  Mark Reback

<p>Kansas City could see gas prices spike by 40 cents a gallon if the Keystone XL Pipeline is built, according to a Consumer Watch study, <a href="http://www.kansascity.com/2013/07/16/4346704/gas-prices-would-rise-in-midwest.html"><em>The Kansas City Star</em> reports</a>.</p> <p>The report that with the increase of exports to other countries, U.S. oil supplies will fall short. In turn, oil prices will rise, as will the price of gas and diesel.</p>

Keystone XL Pipeline Will Raise Gasoline Prices, Not Just Environmental Concerns

July 16, 2013  ·  Mark Reback

<p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/-mvm-vJko0w" width="560"></iframe></p> <p>The last thing Americans, or the American economy needs, is another jump at the gas pump. A <a href="http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/sites/default/files/resources/keystonexl_cwd.pdf" target="_hplink" rel="noopener">new report by Consumer Watchdog</a> finds that's what America will get if the president approves Keystone XL pipeline: a 25 cent to 40 cent gas price hike in the Midwest, and pain at the pump all the way to California.</p>