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Capitol Watchdog: Meetings to Watch

Submitted by Eddie Barrera on Mon, 12/07/2015 - 08:48

Mergers, civic engagement and campaign finance are on the schedule for this week. In addition, the Independent Review Panel for the Department of Toxic Substances Control will be having two meetings on reform. Wednesday's meeting may be especially contentious, considering environmental groups will be laying out internal problems with the DTSC that need to be fixed. 

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Toxics Watchdogs Toy With Hiding Recordings of Public Meetings

Submitted by Liza Tucker on Fri, 11/20/2015 - 14:44
California officials give transparency a lot of lip service, but it's usually the first thing sacrificed when it reveals inconvenient truths like incompetence, industry bias and moral bankruptcy. 
 

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Review Panel Aims at Top Toxics Regulator, Let's Hope It Doesn't Miss

Submitted by Liza Tucker on Mon, 11/16/2015 - 14:37
Courtesy of Gov. Jerry Brown and Senate pro Tem Kevin de Leon, California's top toxics regulator now has an independent review panel. It meets tomorrow for the first time. This panel is critically important to reform of the scandal-plagued Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC). It's got one good shot at changing the department's culture--and that is what it is going to take to make this department worthy of its name.
 

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Capitol Watchdog: Meetings to Watch This Week

Submitted by Eddie Barrera on Mon, 11/16/2015 - 08:23

In this week's meeting, from Nov. 16 - 20, the state's insurance department will be hearing a dispute over a rate increase by State Farm that Consumer Watchdog believes is unfair and overcharging customers by more than $200 million. In addition, the Public Utilities Commission was expected to decide if the Southern California Edison should be financially penalized over alleged improper communications tied to the San Onofre Nuclear power plant decommissioning. 

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How An Exide Could Happen

Submitted by Liza Tucker on Mon, 10/26/2015 - 12:30
The Los Angeles Times’ editorial this week on the urgency of cleaning up Exide’s swath of contamination asks a legitimate question: Why hasn’t California launched an independent investigation into what went so wrong at the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) and other agencies that hazardous waste levels of lead are threatening hundreds of East Los Angeles residents, especially children? 
 

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Why Does It Take KCBS To Do Top Toxics Regulator's Job?

Submitted by Liza Tucker on Thu, 10/15/2015 - 12:11
Last night, CBS TV Los Angeles ran an astonishing story. 
 
Reporter Randy Paige visited homes within two miles of the now-shuttered lead battery recycler Exide. Using an EPA-certified device to instantly measure lead levels in soil or dust, he found children were playing in hazardous waste levels of lead ten times higher or more than the acceptable residential standard. 

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