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Want Ad: Seeking Administrative Law Judge Who Has Not Had Ex Parte Communications With Utility Execs

Submitted by Liza Tucker on Thu, 10/22/2015 - 12:26
Is there a single person left who is involved with the California Public Utilities Commission that hasn’t had ex parte communications with utility executives that they regulate? It doesn’t look like it from the release of yet another bunch of emails about the San Onofre nuclear power plant’s decommissioning.

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Thursday Hot Meetings List: the PUC, CARB and Hearing on Possibly Remaking State Boards

Submitted by Eddie Barrera on Wed, 10/21/2015 - 13:02
Could the membership of state boards lead to anti-trust lawsuits and put members in the legal crosshairs? That's what a 1 p.m. joint hearing will discuss on Thursday. 
 

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Utilities Drive Governor Brown In The Wrong Direction

Submitted by Liza Tucker on Tue, 10/20/2015 - 15:57

Why is everyone fixated on a $34 bathroom scale and Governor Jerry Brown’s move to the newly-renovated governor’s mansion when there are far more dollars at stake in the Governor's handling of the Public Utilities Commission?

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Eyes Open, Governor’s Panel Takes On Gas Price Manipulation By Oil Refiners

Submitted by Jamie Court on Fri, 10/16/2015 - 12:12
Being at the California Energy Commission to testify about how California oil refiners manipulated prices at the pump Tuesday was like prosecuting a case against a defendant who refused to show.
 

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Death Rattle for Corporate Collaborator? SEIU's Corporate Collusion With Hospitals May Collapse

Submitted by Jamie Court on Fri, 10/16/2015 - 10:24
Word on the street is that union President Dave Regan's Faustian bargain with the California hospital industry -- cuddle up with hospitals' management to keep patient problems quiet and receive more than 60,000 new hospital workers -- is now teetering on the brink of collapse. Apparently Regan shut up, but the hospitals didn't put up the new workers. Good riddance. 
 

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