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The Price of Pickel: The LADWP's Ratepayer Watchdog Comes With A $7 Billion Price Tag

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is the largest, most powerful municipal utility in the country.

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Home Invasion: Google, Amazon Patent Filings Reveal Digital Home Assistant Privacy Problems

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 lives.

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Self-Driving Vehicles: The Threat to Consumers

Self-driving vehicles have become a cultural and political phenomenon.

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Rate Regulation: The Rx For Medical Malpractice Insurance Rates

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Connected Car Report 2020: The Models Most Open To Hacks

“Connected Car Report 2020: The Models Most Open To Hacks," finds all of Car and Driver’s top 10 best-selling cars for 2020 clearly have features that allow wireless connectivity with safe

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Sea Change in Sacramento: How Electronic Ballot Signatures Empower Voters

The report finds that high signature costs have put the initiative process out of reach for all but the wealthy.

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LA Times Op-Ed Pages Don't Reflect LA

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 to represent the people that make up Los Angeles.

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TRASHED: How California Recycling Failed and How To Fix It

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KILL SWITCH: Why Connected Cars Can Be Killing Machines And How To Turn Them Off

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 them vulnerable to fleet wide hacks.

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Half a Nickel: How California Consumers Get Ripped Off On Every Bottle Deposit They Pay.

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 reason is a failing sta

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Power Play: How the Governor's Sister Makes A Million Dollars From SEMPRA While His Appointees Let SEMPRA Bilk Ratepayers For Billions

Consumer Watchdog's Liza Tucker authored a new report on Gov. Jerry Brown and his sister's relationship with Sempra Energy, entitled, Power Play.

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Amazon Slime: Amazon's New Consumer Deception

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 meant to trick consumers into thi

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How Google's Backing of Backpage Protects Child Sex Trafficking

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 eyelids; a 15-year-old in S

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How Green Is Jerry Brown?

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: “How Green Is Brown?” On a continuum

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Brown's Dirty Hands

Governor Jerry Brown paints himself a foe of climate change.

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Against The Tide: How Missing Tankers Pumped Up Gas Prices and Refiner Profits

Consumer Watchdog analyzed data from the shipping market and state sources to study the impact of gasoline imports and exports on gas prices in California during the first nine months of 2015, when

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Keystone XL: Oil Industry Cash Machine

Consumer Watchdog investigated the impact of the Keystone XL Pipeline on gasoline prices and consumers.

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Oil Slicked: How Refiners Spend Millions to Protect Billions in Record Profits.

Californians have paid $7.5 billion more than they should have for their gasoline since California’s record gasoline price spike began in February of 2015, according to a Consumer Watchdog analysis

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Golden State Gouge: The Summer of Record Refining Profits

In the six months since California’s record gasoline price spike began in February, Californians have paid $4.8 billion more than the rest of the country for regular gasoline at the pump, according

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Refining Profits: How Californians Get Fleeced at the Pump

This analysis, “Refining Profits,” looks at how oil refiners in California fared over the last decade in their refining operaDons and compared the companies’ refining profits during periods of gaso

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Price Spiked: How Oil Refiners Gouge Californians on their Gasoline and What it Costs

Californians have perennially experienced steep gasoline price spikes since 1999 when California’s Attorney General formed a Gasoline Pricing Taskforce that identified market consolidation and limi

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Pump Jacking California’s Climate Protection: The Threat Of Oil Industry Influence & Market Manipulation

Internal documents obtained from the oil industry’s lobbying arm, the Western States Petroleum Association, show that the companies have made stopping California’s landmark climate change laws thei

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Projected Savings From Prop 45

Proposition 45 will require health insurance companies to open their books and publicly justify their rates under penalty of perjury before they are permitted to change rates for consumers in the i

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