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By Wes Venteicher, POLITICO https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2024/06/oil-industry-group-drops-ballot-initiative-to-drill-near-california-homes-00165248 SACRAMENTO, California — An oil industry group is withdrawing its ballot challenge to a California law that bans drilling within 3,200 feet of homes, businesses and...

BY WES VENTEICHER, POLITICO SACRAMENTO, California — A California state Senate committee voted Tuesday to approve a bill targeting low-production oil wells within 3,200 feet of homes and schools, raising...

By Tom Elias, CHICO ENTERPRISE-RECORD https://www.chicoer.com/2024/06/12/its-time-the-gas-gougers-are-held-responsible-california-focus/# The gasoline price gouging that has plagued California periodically for decades appears no longer to be merely sporadic. It’s now a steady phenomenon.  There was shock...

By Kenneth Schrupp, THE CENTER SQUARE https://www.thecentersquare.com/california/article_2a002ae8-0d6f-11ef-98a3-23aafa7ad2d6.html (The Center Square) - As the California Energy Commission considers adopting a rule to put profit caps on the state's remaining 9 refineries the...

By WES VENTEICHER, POLITICO https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/09/gavin-newsom-climate-message-california-00156954 SACRAMENTO, California — Gov. Gavin Newsom is taking California’s climate story — with its big ambitions and political risks — on the road. The Democratic governor, Biden surrogate...

https://www.capradio.org/articles/2024/05/07/new-california-bills-hope-to-mitigate-health-impacts-linked-to-living-near-oil-gas-wells By Manola Secaira, CAP RADIO Two years ago, California legislators passed a law requiring a 3,200 foot setback between new oil and gas wells and community areas like neighborhoods and...

By Dan Bacher, DAILY KOS https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/5/7/2239438/-Watchdog-Exposes-Phony-Oil-Refiner-Arguments-In-Price-Gouging-Penalty-Proceeding?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=latest_community&pm_medium=web Sacramento, CA –  In comments filed with the California Energy Commission (CEC) Friday, Consumer Watchdog made the case for a maximum gross refining margin that...

By Megan Fan Munce, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/travelers-insurance-rates-19441039.php One of California's largest home insurers is raising rates for hundreds of thousands of state policyholders by an average of 15.3%, the latest move...

By Dan Bacher, ELK GROVE NEWS https://www.elkgrovenews.net/2024/04/new-oil-drilling-permit-approvals-fall.html Newsom's regulators have issued a total of 15,940 well permits of all types since he took office in 2019. “At the same time, permits to...

By Ellen Snortland, DOWNTOWN LA NEWS https://www.ladowntownnews.com/opinion/consider_this/we-can-do-this-stop-throwing-your-money-away/article_134b9cde-e8a2-11ee-8e1e-4fcb4283fd76.html “Am I dreaming? Growing up, we used to take bottles and cans back to grocery stores,” I told Consumer Watchdog’s consumer advocate, Liza Tucker....