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Brown’s Last Chance Campaign Confronts Gov At LA’s Union Station

Submitted by Liza Tucker on Fri, 05/18/2018 - 00:00

Browns Last Chance campaign asked Governor Brown to cross to our side of the tracks at Union Station on Friday and start keeping oil in the ground.  

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30 Public Interest Groups Urge Governor Brown To Freeze State Oil Drilling

Submitted by Liza Tucker on Tue, 01/23/2018 - 00:00

Santa Monica, CA -- 30 environmental and public interest groups urged Governor Brown to articulate a new plan for keeping oil in the ground as the next step to his acknowledgment that turning the course of climate change will require extraordinary new action.
 

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State Farm Power Grab Threatens Auto Safety

Submitted by Jamie Court on Fri, 01/19/2018 - 00:00

Consumer Watchdog urged Assembly member Autumn Burke (D-Los Angeles) to withdraw legislation backed by State Farm Insurance because it “will irreparably harm policyholders who seek to repair their vehicles financially and, potentially, cost many consumers their safety, and even their lives.”
 

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Consumer Watchdog’s Prop 103 Challenges Bring $227 Million in Insurance Rate Savings

Submitted by Mark Reback on Thu, 01/11/2018 - 00:00

Nonprofit Saves Public $3.4 Billion Over Last 15 Years But Sees Insurance Industry Attack
 
Consumer Watchdog’s challenges filed under Proposition 103 to proposed auto, home and business insurance rate increases saved consumers $227.4 million in 2017, the nonprofit, nonpartisan public interest group said today.
 
Since 2003, the group’s challenges in rate proceedings before the Department of Insurance have saved consumers a total of $3.4 billion. Savings have averaged a little more than a quarter of a billion dollars – $227 million – per year.
 

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Carolers Condemn Brown for Climate Cowardice

Submitted by Liza Tucker on Fri, 12/22/2017 - 15:56

Carolers raised their voices before the Governor’s Mansion last night, singing “Jerry Brown Jerry Brown, Keep It In The Ground” to the tune of Jingle Bells and also Consumer Watchdog’s 12 Days of Brown Christmas, both remakes of classic carols that highlight his dirty energy policies.
 

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