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Did Kamala Harris Spike PUC Investigation To Help Her Democratic Friends?

Submitted by Liza Tucker on Tue, 04/05/2016 - 11:30
Kamala Harris with PG&E Lobbyist Willie Brown

Why has CA Attorney General Kamala Harris issued search warrants for the offices of utilities and their regulators in a PUC corruption scandal and then not followed through? Could it be because she doesn't want to hurt powerful Democratic friends? That is what a KPBS investigative reporter is exploring.

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Air Board Candidate Represented Lead Polluter

Submitted by Liza Tucker on Thu, 03/31/2016 - 14:24

UPDATE: SQAMD hired Wayne Nastri as executive director on Friday. 
As early as tomorrow morning, the board of the South Coast Air Quality Management District could name Wayne Nastri to take the place of ousted executive Barry Wallerstein. Nastri, according to environmental regulators at the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), would be a nasty piece of news.
 

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Execs Can't Explain How Consumers Benefit From Anthem-Cigna Merger

Submitted by Carmen Balber on Thu, 03/31/2016 - 13:14

Yesterday in San Francisco, Anthem VP Jay Wagner and Cigna’s Tom Richards refused to commit to price reductions for California consumers if the $54 Billion deal for Anthem to buy Cigna is approved.

In fact, Anthem and Cigna’s executives could not provide any concrete examples of how the Anthem-Cigna merger would benefit consumers at the four-hour hearing into the merger I attended at the Department of Insurance.

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FPPC Investigation Shows McFadden Concealed Three More Years of PG&E Stock Option Ownership

Submitted by Jamie Court on Tue, 03/29/2016 - 11:42

California's Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) has opened an investigation into Nancy McFadden’s failure to report the dates and times of stock sales in PG&E, her former employer, where she held hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock options she took with her when she became Governor Brown's top aide.  
 

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Jerry Brown's Exide Chutzpah

Submitted by Liza Tucker on Mon, 03/28/2016 - 11:58

 
UPDATE, March 31, 2016 -- Governor Brown has now rescinded his exemption of the Exide lead cleanup from the state's signature environmental law, CEQA. He reversed himself only under intense pubilc scrutiny of the administration's handling of the Exide cleanup.

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