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Dirty Deal: How A Corporate Utility Fixer Is Poised To Turn Over California Climate Law To Trump

Justin Kloczko April 17, 2025

A new investigative report (opens in new tab) by Consumer Watchdog explains the sudden reversal by electric worker and corporate lobbyist Scott Wetch to support a...

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Privacy

Hallucinating Risk: Here’s How Artificial Intelligence Is Taking Over Wall Street and What Can be Done About It

Justin Kloczko January 11, 2024

Major Wall Street investment banks are pouring billions of dollars into AI research, patents, and ﬁnancing without adequate safeguards, according to an investigation by Consumer...

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Energy

At Your Convenience: How California Can Make Refunding Bottle Deposits As Easy As Buying Beverages In The First Place.

Liza Tucker April 19, 2023

After decades of consumer and media criticism of California’s failed bottle deposit return program, Governor Newsom and the California Legislature last year finally passed a...

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Accountability

LA Times Op-Ed Pages Don’t Reflect LA

Carmen Balber July 1, 2020

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...

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