By Tom Elias, VENTURA COUNTY STAR August 2, 2022 https://www.vcstar.com/story/opinion/columnists/2022/08/01/oil-and-gas-costing-us-even-more-than-we-thought/10188126002/ The idea that oil companies and gasoline refiners could gouge Californians - and other Americans to a lesser degree - by as...

By Dan Bacher, ELK GROVE NEWS June 3, 2022 http://www.elkgrovenews.net/2022/06/cost-to-californians-10-trillion-by.html#.YppFQpICgmA.twitter Los Angeles, CA—A new report released today by Consumer Watchdog reveals that the true cost to the public of California’s oil and gas...

PUBLIC CITIZEN AND CONSUMER WATCHDOG RELEASED THE FOLLOWING TODAY – The California Assembly Insurance Committee has declined to hold a hearing on a bill that would require insurance companies...

Los Angeles, CA – Consumer Watchdog joined 39 other public interest organizations in comments calling on the Federal Insurance Office to spotlight how the insurance industry contributes to climate change...

By Miranda Green, CALMATTERS June 30, 2021 https://calmatters.org/economy/2021/06/california-wildfire-insurance-climate-change/ In hard-hit Napa Valley, which has burned multiple times this last decade, successful winemakers and longtime residents are weighing their options to rebuild or...

Los Angeles, CA -- A group convened by Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara to investigate insurance-related climate change solutions is recommending he let insurance companies insert secret models into ratemaking, a...

By C.R. Mills, LA PROGRESSIVE December 7, 2020 https://www.laprogressive.com/climate-change-battle/ The state recently announced a $74 million dollar project to move a stretch of highway along the Sonoma County coast inland to avoid sea level...

table, th, tr, td { border: 2px solid black; } Los Angeles, CA – California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara, who has approved $292 million in auto and homeowners’ insurance rate increases since being...

Update 4/24/19 5 PM: Senator Stern agreed to amend his legislation to remove more exemptions from recycling for grocery stores in response to the survey.   Los Angeles, CA — Two...

Los Angeles, CA — On Earth Day, California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara chose “collaboration" with the insurance industry over urgent climate action. Commissioner Lara rejected a petition from 60...