July 1, 2020
A Consumer Watchdog review of one year’s worth of the authors published on the op-ed pages of the Los Angeles Times found that it failed...
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July 31, 2019
Developed with the help of car industry technologists, “Kill Switch” finds all the top 2020 cars have Internet connections to safety critical systems that leave...
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February 27, 2019
For every nickel bottle deposit that California consumers pay in the checkout line, they only get back 2.65 cents. A three-month investigation by Consumer Watchdog found the...
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June 17, 2018
How a Western Energy Grid integration could create a Wild West casino for California’s utilities and how ratepayers could foot the bill. Read the report...
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March 13, 2018
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...
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December 22, 2017
A new study reveals that Amazon and Google have filed patent applications for a number of technologies that would dramatically expand surveillance of consumers’ private...
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August 1, 2017
Consumer Watchdog’s Liza Tucker authored a new report on Gov. Jerry Brown and his sister’s relationship with Sempra Energy, entitled, Power Play. Sempra shareholders haveprofited wildly from...
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June 13, 2017
Self-driving vehicles have become a cultural and political phenomenon. To peruse the breathless headlines is, like a ride in Marty McFly’s DeLorean, to experience the...
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June 12, 2017
Two Consumer Watchdog reports show that Amazon is deceiving its customers by putting fake crossed-out prices next to its products. It’s a deceptive marketing ploy...
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May 17, 2017
Details of Backpage’s victims have filled multiple lawsuits, legal actions and government investigations: A 13-year-old girl in Miami whose pimp tattooed his name on her...
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February 15, 2017
This review fact-checks the perception of Jerry Brown as an environmentalist against his actions since taking office as Governor in 2011 to answer the question:...
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