Los Angeles, CA — Consumer Watchdog today welcomed newly introduced state legislation—SB 467—to ban fracking and a host of other more commonly employed and dangerous...
By Judith Lewis Mernit, CAPITAL AND MAIN September 30, 2020 https://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/story/news/2020/09/29/california-gov-gavin-newsom-and-big-oil-its-complicated/3564007001/ It was early November 2018, and the boosters of Kern County were nervous. Gavin...
Los Angeles, CA — Oil and gas regulators at the California Geologic Energy Management Division (CalGEM) no longer hold oil stocks or other interests in...
Los Angeles, CA — The first definitive study showing perinatal harm from oil production in California to pregnant mothers proves that the state must institute a...
Los Angeles, CA — Consumer Watchdog called upon Governor Gavin Newsom to prevent oil companies from receiving approvals for new oil wells without first requiring full bonding for...
Los Angeles, CA—As the Covid-19 pandemic unfolded, new oil well permits under Gov. Gavin Newsom rose 7.8% in the first quarter of 2020 through April...
Los Angeles, CA – Consumer Watchdog hailed the imminent departure of the Department of Conservation’s Chief Deputy Director, widely seen as an impediment to environmental...
As Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Michael Hiltzik lays out in his column today in the Los Angeles Times, the world’s biggest oil and gas companies have...
Los Angeles, CA — Consumer Watchdog said today that a new state report finding that major oil companies are overcharging their own stations in order...
