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.
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.
Self-Driving Vehicles: The Threat to Consumers
Self-driving vehicles have become a cultural and political phenomenon.
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.
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
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
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
Brown's Dirty Hands
Governor Jerry Brown paints himself a foe of climate change.
Keystone XL: Oil Industry Cash Machine
Consumer Watchdog investigated the impact of the Keystone XL Pipeline on gasoline prices and consumers.
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
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
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
