May 26, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Governor Gavin Newsom has called for a circular economy that slashes waste while extracting maximum value by reusing or remanufacturing as much of it as possible. A circular…
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March 17, 2021
There’s no question that the medical malpractice insurers are making more money than they should, and what’s really interesting is several of these companies which are dominant in the market…
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November 11, 2020
All 10 of the top-selling 2020 car models are clearly connected online to safety critical systems and cannot be disconnected, leaving automobiles vulnerable to an unprecedented, large-scale hack, according to…
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September 25, 2020
“And while I do not by any means believe the initiative, the referendum, and the recall are the panacea for all our political ills, yet they do give to the…
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July 1, 2020
state. We note that 57 of the 918 U.S. articles were about immigration from a national perspective. As California sits on our nation’s border, immigration in some instances could be…
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January 7, 2020
The California bottle deposit law was designed to recycle billions of empty glass, plastic and metal beverage containers every year, cut pollution, and save energy. Consumer Watchdog’s year-long investigation of…
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July 31, 2019
E S For the past five months Consumer Watchdog worked with a group of car industry technologists and engineers concerned about the danger of Internet connectivity in modern non-self-driving cars…
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February 27, 2019
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The opinions expressed in this report are solely those of Consumer Watchdog and do not reflect the opinions of the Container Recycling Institute. CRI provided valuable technical assistance but…
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June 17, 2018
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.
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March 13, 2018
THE PRICE OF PICKEL LADWP’s Ratepayer Watchdog is Costing Ratepayers Nearly $7 Billion B L T The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is the largest, most powerful…
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December 22, 2017
security camera. A particularly troubling patent application describes how Google could use video feeds from smart devices to determine users’ behaviors and characteristics, including “gender, age, fashion-taste, style, mood, known…
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August 1, 2017
The state’s other two investor-owned utilities, Edison International and Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) have also seen growth—but not as spectacular as Sempra’s. Over the past five years, Sempra reports…
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