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KNX-AM (Radio) – Los Angeles, CA: CW Is Calling For The Public To Reach Out To The State Energy Commission For Action
By Staff Reporters, KNX-AM – Los Angeles, CA
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DeSmog – As CRC Prepares to Buy Aera, New Law to Stem Orphan Wells Faces its First Test
The deal would place 40 percent of California’s idle wells in the hands of one operator. Campaigners warn this poses an “immense” risk to the state — which new rules could help to mitigate, depending on how regulators...
The San Francisco Chronicle – California proposes rule that would change how insurers assess wildfire risk
By Megan Fan Munce, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/home-insurance-wildfire-risk-19021575.php
A newly proposed regulation aims to draw insurers back to the state by allowing them to anticipate future wildfire risks when raising their rates.
The proposed rule change, released Thursday, would allow companies to submit catastrophe models for wildfires,...
KTVU-SF (FOX) – San Francisco, CA: Using Models To Predict Insurance Rate Hikes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GAY6xfdKTA
Harvey Rosenfield of Consumer Watchdog says this new plan would allow the insurance companies to propose these models without public scrutiny, and there's this there's nothing in this regulation that requires the insurance companies to reduce anybody's rates...
KBCW 44 Cable 12 – San Francisco, CA: Chevy Camaro Thefts On The Rise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmuyO5DfVM8
Carmen Balber says we have seen this problem with other cars impact consumers ability to get auto insurance. Insurance companies cannot just increase prices overnight they have to go the insurance commissioner and prove that the thefts have...
The Los Angeles Times – Editorial: What’s behind California’s high gas prices? Don’t trust the oil industry for answers
By The Times Editorial Board, LOS ANGELES TIMES
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-03-18/editorial-whats-behind-californias-high-gas-prices-dont-trust-the-oil-industry-for-answers
If you live in California you’ve probably run across ads blaming high gasoline prices on state laws and policies. They’re online, on television, in mailers, on highway billboards and even on gas pumps...
E&E News – Oil-friendly ad blitz targets Calif. climate policies
By Anne Mulkern, E&E NEWS
https://www.eenews.net/articles/oil-friendly-ad-blitz-targets-calif-climate-policies/#:~:text=climate%20policies,-By%20Anne%20C&text=Coalitions%20that%20won%27t%20reveal,higher%20gas%20and%20electricity%20prices.
Oil industry allies in California are filling television and computer screens statewide with a multimillion-dollar ad campaign that blames state climate policies for pushing up gasoline and electricity costs.
Some key details around the ads...
KXTV-SAC (ABC) – Sacramento, CA: Proposed Insurance Changes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKIfzHcWuv8&feature=youtu.be
Carmen Balber with Consumer Watchdog worries the state's process of approving these models won't be transparent enough.
KNX-AM (Radio) – Los Angeles, CA: New Insurance Proposal Does Not Help Homeowners As Much As It Benefits Insurers
By Staff Reporters, KNX-AM – Los Angeles, CA
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Politico – Pressure at the Pump
By Wes Venteicher, Politico California Climate
PRESSURE AT THE PUMP: A group of environmental and consumer groups is pressuring the California Energy Commission to hurry up and impose a profit cap on oil refiners ahead of the usual summer surge...
The Mercury News – Commissioner unveils plan for home insurers to base California rate hikes on catastrophe prediction models
By John Woolfolk, THE MERCURY NEWS
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/03/14/commissioner-unveils-plan-for-home-insurers-to-base-rate-hikes-on-catastrophe-prediction-models/amp
In an effort to staunch the exodus of home insurers fleeing the state, California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Thursday unveiled a proposal for letting those insurers use computer models of possible future catastrophes to...
Cal Matters – Home insurers given leeway
By Levi Sumagaysay, CAL MATTERS
https://calmatters.org/newsletter/financial-aid-deadline-california
The Los Angeles Times – California’s home insurer of last resort sees enrollment surge, raising concerns over its finances
By Ruben Vives, LOS ANGELES TIMES
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-03-15/californias-home-insurer-of-last-resort-sees-enrollment-surge-raising-concerns-over-its-finances#:~:text=Roach%20said%20the%20Fair%20Plan,was%20%2450%20billion%20in%202018.
With home insurers scaling back coverage in the state, enrollment is surging in California's backstop insurance plan -- as is the plan's risk of sustaining losses that it can't cover.
Victoria Roach, president of...
KNX-AM (Radio) – Los Angeles, CA: Insurance Rates Continue to Climb Up
By Staff Reporters, KNX-AM – Los Angeles, CA
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Politico – Ricardo Lara is playing with fire
By Camille Von Kaenel, POLITICO
With help from Blanca Begert, Alex Nieves and Hannah Northey
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-climate/2024/03/14/ricardo-lara-is-playing-with-fire-00147237
BURNING PLAN: Climate-change-fueled wildfires have scared insurance companies out of California. Now, Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara is trying to let climate change show up in rates in an...
ABC7 – What’s California doing to address the insurance crisis?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssxyylYXWtw
"One of the other things that we're urging the state to do is create a public model to look at climate risk in California that allows us to look at the local level at steps homeowners and communities...
The San Diego Union Tribune – John Gomez withdraws his lawsuit against San Diego attorneys’ group he once presided over
By Jeff McDonald, THE SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/watchdog/story/2024-03-14/gomez-withdraws-his-lawsuit-against-san-diego-attorneys-group-he-once-led
SAN DIEGO — John Gomez, the firebrand San Diego litigator known locally through several high-profile lawsuits and frequent television commercials, has dismissed an eye-popping legal complaint he filed late last year against a local attorneys...
VC Star – Ventura County hospitals receive 239 complaints, reports show; Los Robles cited most
By Tom Kisken, VENTURA COUNTY STAR
https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/health/2024/03/08/ventura-county-hospital-violations-2023/72635858007
State regulators received more complaints, found more violations and assessed more fines at Los Robles Regional Medical Center in Thousand Oaks than any other hospital in Ventura County last year.
California Department of Public...
Los Angeles Times – He claims to have saved California homeowners billions. The insurance industry hates him
By Sam Dean, LOS ANGELES TIMES
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-03-01/consumer-watchdog-insurance-industry-harvey-rosenfield
Insurance industry groups have called it a “bomb-throwing bogus advocacy” group, a “publicity-seeking, dark money front,” and an organization out to protect its own “financial $elf-interest$.”
These are the kinds of attacks that Harvey...
POLITICO – Department of Finance repays loan to CalRecycle as beverage recycling costs rise
Consumer advocates had raised concerns the fund wouldn’t have enough money to cover greater recycling rates and upcoming reforms.
By Camille Von Kaenel, POLITICO
https://politicopro.com/article/2024/02/department-of-finance-repays-loan-to-calrecycle-as-beverage-recycling-costs-rise-00144255?source=email
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California officials told lawmakers on Thursday they repaid a $100 million loan they...
KTVU-SF (FOX) - San Francisco, CA: Using Models To Predict Insurance Rate Hikes
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KXTV-SAC (ABC) - Sacramento, CA: Proposed Insurance Changes
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KBCW 44 Cable 12 - San Francisco, CA: Chevy Camaro Thefts On The Rise
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ABC7 - What's California doing to address the insurance crisis?
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KNBC-LA (NBC) - Los Angeles, CA: New Developments in LADWP Overbilling Scandal
03:46
KTLA-LA (CW) - Los Angeles, CA: Request To Unseal Records In DWP/City Attorney Scandal
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KOVR-SAC (CBS) - Sacramento, CA: Signs Fueling Debate Over Gas Tax
02:24
Consumer Alert: More Deceptive Big Oil Ads Targeting California
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KCRA-SAC (NBC) - Sacramento, CA: Struggle To Get State Records
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Consumer Alert — Insurance Attack
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